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What of the Church in Wales?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Roger Lee Brown
Roger Lee Brown
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Vicar of Tongwynlais and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Llandaff
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Most clerics of the Church in Wales will be aware that many people on the fringe of Church life will describe themselves as belonging to the Church of England, rather than as members of the Church in Wales. A Welsh hospital chaplain recently issued a circular requesting that Anglican patients entering hospital should describe themselves as members of the Church in Wales rather than of the Church in England. Seventy and more years after the disestablishment of the Church in Wales there is thus confusion in the minds of many about the identity of the Church in Wales. Is it, or is it not, part of the Church of England? But if there is confusion in the minds of some about the identity of the Church in Wales, there is equal confusion about its status. What does it mean to belong to a disestablished Church? What does it mean to be a disestablished Church?

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Research Article
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 12 , January 1993 , pp. 20 - 29
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 1993

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