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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]
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.
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]
This is a list of the deans of St Asaph Cathedral, Wales. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ... british-history.ac.uk (13th century)
Diocese of St Asaph: Proposed St Asaph move begun in 1578–9, abandoned in 1584 [8] Planned Puritan cathedral built on site of earlier church, in north Wales then largest town N/A N/A. Diocese of St Asaph: Proposed St Asaph move from 1281 to 1283 Proposed move to new English fortified town Rhuddlan.
William Morgan (1545 – 10 September 1604) was a Welsh Bishop of Llandaff and of St Asaph, and the translator of the first version of the whole Bible into Welsh from Greek and Hebrew. Title page of Morgan's translation of the Bible The opening page of The Book of Genesis in Morgan's Bible
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.
This diocese was founded by St. Kentigern about the middle of the sixth century, when he was exiled from his see in Scotland. He founded a monastery called Llanelwy at the confluence of the rivers Clwyd and Elwy in north east Wales, where after his return to Scotland in 573 he was succeeded by Asaph or Asa, who was consecrated Bishop of Llanelwy.