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." === List of the Bishops of the Diocese of Monmouth === {| class="wikitable" |- align=left ! width="20%"|Tenure ! width="40%"|Incumbent ! width="20%"|Notes |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1921 to 1928||'''Charles''' Alfred Howell '''Green'''||  |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1928 to 1940||'''Gilbert''' Cunningham '''Joyce'''||previously Archdeacon of St David's |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1940 to 1945||'''Alfred''' Edwin '''Monahan'''||previously Archdeacon of Monmouth |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1945 to December 1967||Alfred '''Edwin Morris''', DD||Archbishop_of_Wales 1957–1967 |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1968 to 1971||'''Eryl''' Stephen '''Thomas'''||previously Dean of Llandaff; translated to Llandaff |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1972 to summer 1986||'''Derrick''' Greenslade '''Childs'''||previously Principal of Trinity College, Carmarthen; Archbishop_of_Wales 1983–1986; retired |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1986 to 1991||'''Royston''' Clifford '''Wright''', BA||previously Archdeacon of Newport; retired |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1991 to 2003||'''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 |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |2003 to present||'''Dominic_Walker''', OGS||previously Area Bishop_of_Reading |- |} {{Anglican Bishops & Archbishops - Great Britain}} === Sources === * '''''Whitaker's Almanack''' to '''2004''' Joseph Whitaker & Sons Ltd/A&C; Black, London'' === See also === Lists_of_office-holders Monmouth Category:Welsh_clergy