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Alfred George Edwards

Welsh archbishop
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Born:
Nov. 2, 1848, Llanymawddwy, Merionethshire, Wales
Died:
July 22, 1937, St. Asaph, Flintshire, Wales (aged 88)
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Alfred George Edwards (born Nov. 2, 1848, Llanymawddwy, Merionethshire, Wales—died July 22, 1937, St. Asaph, Flintshire, Wales) was the first archbishop of Wales, who sought successfully to create a native church more reflective of Welsh culture than was the Anglican Church. Edwards graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1874. After a successful headmastership of Llandovery College, he became vicar of Carmarthen in 1885, where he began the great work of his life, the defense and strengthening of the Welsh national church. An ardent believer in disestablishment, he fought his church’s many enemies on every ground of fact and principle by ...(100 of 142 words)

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