List of cathedrals in Wales

This is a list of all cathedrals in Wales, both Anglican Church in Wales cathedrals, and most of the Roman Catholic cathedrals of the Metropolitan Province of Cardiff, excluding the province's former pro cathedral Belmont Abbey in Herefordshire, England, as part of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.

Church in Wales
There are six dioceses of Wales with a Bishop for each diocese of the Church in Wales. The Archbishop of Wales is elected by the Electoral College from amongst the six Welsh diocesan bishops. The first Archbishop of Wales was enthroned in 1920.

The Welsh Church Act 1914 caused the Church of England to be disestablished in Wales and Monmouthshire in 1920, and allowed the establishment of the Church in Wales and enthronement of the first Archbishop of Wales in the same year. The act introduction states, "An Act to terminate the establishment of the Church of England in Wales and Monmouthshire, and to make provision in respect of the Temporalities thereof, and for other purposes in connection with the matters aforesaid."

Roman Catholic Church


The Welsh and Herefordshire operations of the Catholic Church in England and Wales is divided into three dioceses; the Diocese of Wrexham, the Diocese of Menevia and the Archdiocese of Cardiff. Together these dioceses make up the Catholic Province of Cardiff.

The Archdiocese of Cardiff includes 78 churches including Cardiff cathedral. 70 of these churches are in south east Wales and 8 churches in Herefordshire, England. The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales is a permanent assembly of Catholic Bishops and Personal Ordinaries in the two member countries of Wales and England.

Former or proposed Cathedrals
Going by the Cathedral definition of seating a bishop this list includes St David's and St Asaph's attempt's to relocate to larger towns and also several early Celtic Catholic pre-congregational churches as well. Several of these are shrouded in mystery making it hard to figure out what's right and what's wrong

False Cathedrals
Several Churches in Wales have been called cathedrals by their locals even if the aren't they are the following:
 * Welsh Presbyterian Church, Liverpool/"Welsh Cathedral"(in England)
 * Christ Church, Bryn-y-Maen/"The Cathedral of the Hills"
 * St John's English Wesleyan Methodist Church/"Cathedral of English Wesleyan Methodism on the north Welsh Coast"
 * Saint Peter's Church Pontardawe/"The Cathedral of the Swansea Valley"
 * Tabernacle Welsh Independent Chapel/"The Cathedral of Welsh Nonconformity"
 * Bethesda English Baptist/"The Nonconformist Cathedral of West Wales"
 * Zion Congregational Church/"Cathedral of Welsh Non-Conformity"
 * St Peter's Church, Pentre/"Cathedral of the Rhondda
 * Aberdare St Elvan/"Cathedral of the Valleys"

Wales

 * Christianity in Wales
 * Religion in Wales
 * List of cities in Wales
 * List of monastic houses in Wales

Elsewhere

 * List of cathedrals in Scotland
 * List of cathedrals in Ireland
 * List of cathedrals in England
 * List of cathedrals in France