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The 'Bishop of Monmouth' is the diocescan bishop of the Church in Wales Diocese of Monmouth.
Despite the name, the see is not in Monmouth but the city of Newport, site of the Cathedral Church of Saint Woolos which was elevated to cathedral status in 1921.
The Bishop's residence is Bishopstow, Newport.
The diocese is one of two new ones founded in 1921 when the Church in Wales became independent of the established Church of England. The current Bishop is the Right Reverend 'Dominic Walker', OGS, the 9th Bishop of Monmouth, who was previously Area Bishop of Reading in the Church of England. His predecessor, the Most Reverend Dr. Rowan Williams, was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002 - the first Welsh bishop to hold that post since the English Reformation in the sixteenth century. He was also the Archbishop of Wales at the time of his appointment to Canterbury and was styled as "The Most Reverend Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Wales and Bishop of Monmouth."

Contents

List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Monmouth

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List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Monmouth

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
1921 to 1928	'Charles' Alfred Howell 'Green'
1928 to 1940	'Gilbert' Cunningham 'Joyce'	previously Archdeacon of St David's
1940 to 1945	'Alfred' Edwin 'Monahan'	previously Archdeacon of Monmouth
1945 to December 1967	Alfred 'Edwin Morris', DD	Archbishop of Wales 1957–1967
1968 to 1971	'Eryl' Stephen 'Thomas'	previously Dean of Llandaff; translated to Llandaff
1972 to summer 1986	'Derrick' Greenslade 'Childs'	previously Principal of Trinity College, Carmarthen; Archbishop of Wales 1983–1986; retired
1986 to 1991	Royston 'Clifford' 'Wright', BA	previously Archdeacon of Newport; retired
1991 to 2002	'Rowan' Douglas 'Williams'	previously Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford and canon of Christ Church; consecrated at Saint Asaph Cathedral on 14 May 1992; Archbishop of Wales 1999–2002; translated to Canterbury
2003 to present	'Dominic Walker', OGS	previously Area Bishop of Reading

Sources

★ '''Whitaker's Almanack' to '2004' Joseph Whitaker & Sons Ltd/A&C Black, London''