Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist - Brecon, Powys, Wales
N 51° 57.088 W 003° 23.526
30U E 473053 N 5755712
Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist - The mother church of the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon in the 'Church in Wales' located in Brecon, Powys, Wales.
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Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/29/2013
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The 'Church in Wales' Diocese of Swansea and Brecon covers a wide geographical area- from rural Powys in the north, to Brecon at the centre, then down through the Swansea Valley to urban Swansea and the spectacular Gower coastline.
"The Church in Wales (Welsh: Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is the Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses.
As with the primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Archbishop of Wales serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishops. The current archbishop is Barry Morgan, the Bishop of Llandaff.
In contrast to the Church of England, the Church in Wales is not an established church. Disestablishment was effected in 1920, under the Welsh Church Act 1914. It kept all its church buildings including those that dated to before the Reformation.
As a member of the Anglican Communion the Church in Wales recognises the primacy of the Archbishop of Canterbury who does not, however, have any formal authority in the Church in Wales (except for residual roles — in ecclesiastical court to try the archbishop, as metropolitan, and the appointment of notaries). A handful of border parishes remained in the Church of England and so were exempt from disestablishment. A cleric of the Church in Wales can be appointed to posts in the Church of England, including the See of Canterbury; the former archbishop, the Welshman Rowan Williams, was Archbishop of Wales before his appointment to Canterbury." Text Source:
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