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The Cathedral Church of Saints Asaph and Cyndeyrn, commonly called St Asaph Cathedral (Welsh: Eglwys Gadeiriol Llanelwy), is a cathedral in St Asaph, Denbighshire, north Wales. It is the episcopal seat of the Bishop of St Asaph. The cathedral dates back 1,400 years, while the current building dates from the 13th century. [1]
Asaph instead brought him live coals in his apron, and the miracle revealed to Kentigern the sanctity of his disciple. So when the old man was recalled to Strathclyde, after the Battle of Arfderydd, in 573 Asaph was consecrated bishop to succeed him, and became the first Welsh bishop of the see. [2] Asaph is said to have died in 596. [4]
St Asaph (/ ˈ æ s ə f /; [1] Welsh: Llanelwy [ɬanˈɛlʊɨ̯] "church on the Elwy" [2]) is a cathedral city [3] and community on the River Elwy in Denbighshire, Wales.In the 2011 Census it had a population of 3,355, [4] making it the second-smallest city in the United Kingdom in terms of population and urban area.
This is a list of the deans of St Asaph Cathedral, Wales. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011)-1357 Llywelyn ap Madog;
Originally part of the Archdeaconry of Powys, which dated from the Medieval period. The Archdeaconry of Powys was reconstituted by an Order in Council in 1844, when it was split into the Archdeaconry of Montgomery and the Archdeaconry of St Asaph. In recent years the Archdeacon has lived in 17th century half-timbered Vicarage at Berriew.
Statue of William Salesbury on the Translators' Memorial in the churchyard of St Asaph Cathedral. William Salesbury, also Salusbury, (c. 1520 – c. 1584) was the leading Welsh scholar of the Renaissance and the principal translator of the 1567 Welsh New Testament.
The Domesday Book of 1086 gives scanty particulars of a few churches but is silent as to the cathedral. Early in the twelfth century Norman influence asserted itself and in 1143 Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, consecrated one Gilbert as Bishop of St. Asaph, but the position of his successors was very difficult and one of them, Godfrey, was driven away by poverty and the hostility of the Welsh.
Daniel Price was Dean of St Asaph [3] from 1696 until his death on 7 November 1706. [1]Price was born in Llanwnnog and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. [4] He was ordained on 26 May 1678.