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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 isn't 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 16th 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

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

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