Bishop of Monmouth

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox diocese The Bishop of Monmouth (Welsh: Esgob Mynwy) is the diocesan bishop of the Church in Wales Diocese of Monmouth.

The episcopal see covers the historic county of Monmouthshire with the bishop's seat located at Newport Cathedral (commonly known as St Woolos' Cathedral) in the city of Newport. The former Church of St Woolos, which had existed in Newport since the sixth or seventh century AD, was originally the temporary seat of the Bishop when the Diocese of Monmouth was created in 1921. St Woolos was eventually raised to Cathedral status in 1949.

The bishop's residence is Bishopstow, which is in central Newport.

The diocese is one of two new ones founded in the 1920s when the Church in Wales was 'disestablished' and became independent of the established Church of England. The current Bishop is Cherry Vann, elected in 2019 as the first female Bishop of the Diocese. Her immediate predecessors were Richard Pain, previously Archdeacon of Monmouth, and Dominic Walker OGS, previously area Bishop of Reading in the Church of England.

The Diocese of Monmouth has also produced a number of Archbishops of Wales, most notably Rowan Williams, who was subsequently appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002 - believed to be the first Welsh-born bishop to hold that post since the English Reformation in the 16th century.Template:Citation needed He was also the Archbishop of Wales at the time of his appointment to Canterbury and was styled as "Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Wales and Bishop of Monmouth".

List of bishops

Bishops of Monmouth
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1921	1928	File:Bp Charles Green NPG.jpg Charles Green	Consecrated on 21 December 1921; translated to Bangor on 25 September 1928.<ref>Charles Green Template:Webarchive. The Church in Wales. Retrieved on 5 February 2010.</ref>
1928	1940	File:No image.svg Gilbert Joyce	Previously Archdeacon of St David's; consecrated bishop on 30 November 1928; resigned in April 1940; died on 22 July 1942.<ref>Gilbert Cunningham Joyce Template:Webarchive. The Church in Wales. Retrieved on 5 February 2010.</ref>
1940	1945	File:No image.svg Alfred Monahan	Previously Archdeacon of Monmouth; consecrated bishop on 24 August 1940; died in office on 10 August 1945.<ref>Alfred Monahan Template:Webarchive. The Church in Wales. Retrieved on 5 February 2010.</ref>
1945	1967	File:No image.svg Edwin Morris	Consecrated bishop on 1 November 1945; also was Archbishop of Wales 1957–1967; resigned on 31 December 1967.<ref>Alfred Morris Template:Webarchive. The Church in Wales. Retrieved on 5 February 2010.</ref>
1968	1971	File:No image.svg Eryl Thomas	Previously Dean of Llandaff; elected bishop on 14 February and consecrated on 29 March 1968; translated to Llandaff on 11 December 1971.<ref>Eryl Thomas Template:Webarchive. The Church in Wales. Retrieved on 5 February 2010.</ref>
1971	1986	File:No image.svg Derrick Childs	Previously Principal of Trinity College, Carmarthen; elected bishop on 25 January and consecrated on 23 May 1971; also was Archbishop of Wales 1983–1986; retired in the summer of 1986; died as result of a motor accident in 1987.<ref>Derrick Childs Template:Webarchive. The Church in Wales. Retrieved on 5 February 2010.</ref>
1986	1991	File:No image.svg Clifford Wright	Previously Archdeacon of Newport; elected and consecrated bishop in 1986; retired in 1991.<ref>Clifford Wright Template:Webarchive. The Church in Wales. Retrieved on 5 February 2010.</ref>
1991	2002	File:Rowan Williams.jpg Rowan Williams	Previously Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford and canon of Christ Church; elected bishop on 5 December 1991 and consecrated on 1 May 1992; also was Archbishop of Wales 1999–2002; translated to Canterbury in 2002; master of Magdalene College, Cambridge 2013.<ref>Rowan Williams Template:Webarchive. The Church in Wales. Retrieved on 5 February 2010.</ref>
2003	2013	File:Monmouth VIPs Bishop Dominic Walker.jpg Dominic Walker Template:Post-nominals	Previously Area Bishop of Reading; elected bishop in December 2002 and enthroned on 30 March 2003.<ref>Dominic Walker Template:Webarchive. The Church in Wales. Retrieved on 5 February 2010.</ref>
2013	2019	File:Mayor Bishop Achdeacon Induction of Rev David McGladdery Vicar of Monmouth (Richard Pain cropped).jpg Richard Pain	Previously Archdeacon of Monmouth; elected bishop on 23 July 2013 and enthroned on 19 October 2013.<ref>[1]. The Church in Wales. Retrieved on 19 October 2013.</ref>
5 January 2020<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	present	File:No image.svg Cherry Vann	previously Archdeacon of Rochdale
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