The Church in Wales - All Saints Church - Oystermouth, Wales. - Flags of Organizations on Waymarking.com

The Church in Wales flag is Blue cross on a white background, with a gold coloured Celtic cross at the centre.

"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. But the latter does not 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 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, Rowan Williams, was from Wales and served as Archbishop of Wales before his appointment to Canterbury." Text Source: (visit link)

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"The church of All Saints Oystermouth is an amalgam of the very old and the comparatively new. The church is first mentioned in the records in 1141. But there may well have been a church in the area before the Anglo-Normans established their castle in the twelfth century. St Illtud (c.AD 475-c525) used Ystumllwynarth (Oystermouth) as a quiet place of retreat from his busy monastery of Llantwit Major and built a chapel there. Old folk in the 1800s recalled a tradition of there being a chapel on the cliff at Knab Rock and quarrymen were later to cut through its cemetery.

The earliest surviving part of the present church consists of the Lady Chapel, the south aisle and the western tower and constituted the medieval parish church which was built in the thirteenth century on the site of a Roman building. It served the needs of the parishioners until the mid-nineteenth century." Text Source: (visit link)

Name of Organization: Church in Wales. Type of Organization: Religious Organizatin Type of Mounting: Building Mounted Flagpole Location: All Saints Parish Church, Oystermouth. Relevant Web Site (Optional): [Web Link]

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