Alfred Edwards (bishop)

The Most Reverend Alfred Edwards
Archbishop of Wales

Church	Church in Wales
Elected	1920
In office	1920-1934
Successor	Charles Green
Orders
Ordination	1875
Consecration	1889
Rank	Archbishop
Personal details
Born	(1848-11-02)November 2, 1848 Llanymawddwy, Gwynedd, Wales
Died	July 22, 1937(1937-07-22) (aged 88)

Alfred George Edwards (2 November 1848 - 22 July 1937) was elected the first archbishop of the disestablished Church in Wales.

The son of a priest of the Church of England, Edwards was born in Llanymawddwy in Gwynedd. He studied at Jesus College, Oxford, before being appointed warden of Llandovery College in 1875. In the same year he was ordained as a priest and in 1885 he was appointed the vicar of St Peter's Church, Carmarthen. ^[1]

In 1889 Edwards was appointed the Bishop of St Asaph.^[2] He was a strong defender of the rights of the established Church of England in Wales in the face of mounting call for disestablishment from the nonconformist and liberal majority.

When the Church of England in Wales was disestablished and became the Church in Wales in 1920, he was elected the first Archbishop of Wales. He retired in 1934, died in 1937 and was buried at St Asaph.^[3]

References

↑ Who was Who 1897–20 07, 1991, ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
↑ The Bishop Of St Asaph (News), The Times, 26 April 1889; pg. 7; Issue 32683; col F
↑ Ecclesiastical News, Archbishop Of Wales's Retirement (Official Appointments and Notices), The Times, 25 July 1934; pg. 15; Issue 46815; col D

Church in Wales titles
Preceded by Joshua Hughes	Bishop of St Asaph 1889–1934	Succeeded by William Thomas Havard
New title	Archbishop of Wales 1920–1934	Succeeded by Charles Green

Bishops of St Asaph

Early & High Medieval	Saint Kentigern/Mungo Saint Asaph Tysilio Renchidus Cebur Melanus Gilbert Geoffrey of Monmouth Richard Godfrey Adam Parvipontanus John (I) Reiner Abraham Hugh Hywel ab Ednyfed Einion (I) John (II) Einion (II)

Late Medieval	Llywelyn de Bromfield Dafydd ap Bleddyn John Trevor (I) Llywelyn ap Madog William Spridlington Lawrence Child Alexander Bache John Trevor (II) Robert Lancaster John Low Reginald Pecock Thomas Bird (alias Knight) Richard Redman Michael Deacon

Early modern	Dafydd ab Iorwerth Dafydd ab Owain Edmund Birkhead Henry Standish William Barlow Robert Parfew/Warton Thomas Goldwell Richard Davies Thomas Davies William Hughes William Morgan Richard Parry John Hanmer John Owen George Griffith Henry Glemham Isaac Barrow William Lloyd Edward Jones George Hooper William Beveridge William Fleetwood John Wynne Francis Hare Thomas Tanner Isaac Maddox John Thomas Samuel Lisle The Hon Robert Hay Drummond Richard Newcome Jonathan Shipley Samuel Hallifax Lewis Bagot

Late modern	Samuel Horsley William Cleaver John Luxmoore William Carey Thomas Short Joshua Hughes Alfred Edwards (Archbishop of Wales) William Havard David Bartlett Harold Charles Alwyn Rice Jones (Archbishop of Wales) John Davies Gregory Cameron

Archbishops of Wales

Alfred Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph
Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor
David Prosser, Bishop of St David's
John Morgan, Bishop of Llandaff
Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth
Glyn Simon, Bishop of Llandaff
Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor
Derrick Childs, Bishop of Monmouth
George Noakes, Bishop of St David's
Alwyn Rice Jones, Bishop of St Asaph
Rowan Williams, Bishop of Monmouth
Barry Morgan, Bishop of Llandaff

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 57976833 LCCN: n82223850

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