Church in Wales

The Church in Wales Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru
Modern logo of the Church in Wales
Independence	1920 (Disestablishment)
Primate	Barry Morgan (Archbishop of Wales)
Headquarters	Cardiff
Territory	Wales with 1,500 congregations
Language	Welsh and English
Members	84,000 members, 206,000 total attendees (2015), 350,000 affiliates
Website	churchinwales.org

The Church in Wales (Welsh: Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is the Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses. It defines itself as "the ancient Church of this land, catholic and reformed. It proclaims and holds fast the doctrine and ministry of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church".

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.

Unlike the Church of England, the Church in Wales is not an established church. Disestablishment was effected in 1920 under the Welsh Church Act 1914.

As a province of the Anglican Communion, the Church in Wales recognises the Archbishop of Canterbury as a focus of unity but without 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, and the granting of Special Marriage Licences). Eighteen cross-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. According to the Mission Atlas Project, 350,000 affiliates identify with the Church in Wales in 1,500 congregations.