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Bishop of Penrydd

anglican suffragan bishop in Wales

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ16148134 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bishop of Penrydd (originally spelled Penreth) was a suffragan see in the Church of England (then covering England and Wales) named in the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534.

Only one bishop was appointed by Robert Holgate, Bishop of Llandaff from 1537 until 1539. The holder John Bird went on to be Bishop of Bangor and then Chester.

An Inventory of Ancient Monuments explains how the establishment of the see may have come about.

Penrydd was subsequently (until 1974) a parish in Cilgerran Hundred.

References

Sources

Richard Copsey, ‘Bird, John (d.

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The public source identifies “Bishop of Penrydd” as anglican suffragan bishop in Wales. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bishop, Penrydd and anglican.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bishop of Penrydd” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.