Diocese of Monmouth

Diocese of Monmouth Esgobaeth Mynwy
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Location
Ecclesiastical province	Wales
Archdeaconries	Monmouth, Newport
Statistics
Parishes	125
Churches	184
Information
Cathedral	Newport Cathedral
Current leadership
Bishop	Richard Pain
Map
Map of the dioceses in the Church in Wales
Website
churchinwales.org.uk/monmouth

The Diocese of Monmouth is a diocese of the Church in Wales. Despite the name, its cathedral is located not in Monmouth but in Newport — the Cathedral Church of St Woolos. Reasons for not choosing the title of Newport included the existence of a Catholic Bishop of Newport until 1916. This apparent anomaly arose in 1921 when the diocese was created (from the eastern part of the Diocese of Llandaff) with no location for the cathedral yet chosen. Various options were being considered, such as restoring Tintern Abbey, building from scratch on Ridgeway Hill in Newport, and (the eventual choice) upgrading St. Woolos, then a parish church; in the meantime the new diocese, as it covers more or less the territory of the county of Monmouth, was named the "Diocese of Monmouth". Prior to 1921 the area had been the archdeaconry of Monmouth.

It is headed by Richard Pain, Bishop of Monmouth. He was elected the tenth bishop in July 2013 and enthroned at a service in Newport Cathedral on 18 October 2013.

In its own words, the diocese "covers the south east corner of Wales, from Monmouth south to Chepstow, westwards along the 'M4 corridor' to Newport and the outskirts of Cardiff, northwards into the south eastern valleys and east into the rural areas around Usk, Raglan, Abergavenny and the Herefordshire border".

In local government terms, the territory of the diocese covers the unitary authority areas of:

• Monmouthshire
• Newport
• Torfaen
• Blaenau Gwent (part)
• Caerphilly (part)
• Cardiff (part)
• Herefordshire (part)

List of archdeacons

Archdeacons of Monmouth

The archdeaconry of Monmouth was erected, from the Llandaff archdeaconry, in the Diocese of Llandaff on 6 February 1844.

• 26 February 1844 – 1885 (ret.): William Crawley
• 1885–1914 (res.): Conybeare Bruce
• 1914–1921 (res.): Charles Green

From its creation in 1921, the archdeaconry has been in Monmouth diocese.

• 1922–1926 (d.): David Griffiths
• 1926–1930 (res.): David Roberts
• 1930–1940 (res.): Alfred Monahan
• 1940–1954: Samuel Davies
• 1954–1977: Ernest Evans
• 1977–1977 (res.): Clifford Wright
• 1977–1986 (res.): Barrie Evans
• 1986–1993 (res.): Keith Tyte
• 1993–2001: Peter Woodman
• 2001–2008: Glyndwr Hackett
• 2008–2013 (res.): Richard Pain
• 2013–present: Ambrose Mason

Archdeacons of Newport

The archdeaconry of Newport was created from the Monmouth archdeaconry in 1930.

• 1930–1935: ?
• 1935–1948 (ret.): Vaughan Rees
• 1948–1953 (d.): Thomas Parry-Pryce
• 1953–1964 (ret.): Charles Lewis (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)
• 1964–1973: Ivor Philips
• 1977–1986 (res.): Clifford Wright
• 1986–1993 (ret.): Barrie Evans
• 1993–1997 (ret.): Keith Tyte
• 1997–2008: Kenneth Sharpe
• 2008–2012: Glyndwr Hackett
• 2012–present: Jonathan Williams

External links

• Diocese of Monmouth