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- The site of St Davids Cathedral has been an active place of worship since the sixth century.
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After much campaigning, the Welsh Church Act of 1914 was passed by David Lloyd George’s Liberal government and implemented in 1920 after the First World War. This set up an independent Church in Wales, separate from the Established Church of England and within the worldwide Anglican community.
The cathedral began to have life again and the famous Welsh Youth Pilgrimages to St Davids (Cymry'r Groes) led many to a life of service in the church and provided the Church in Wales with inspired clergy for a decade following.
St David, Dewi Sant, was a leading figure and monk in the early Welsh Church who lived in this area in the sixth century. He founded a monastic community here living a simple, austere life in the Celtic monastic tradition which connected the people of Wales with Ireland, Cornwall, France and the Scottish Isles.
Marking its completion in October 1901, special service was held at the Cathedral. The Bishop of Exeter preached the sermon on ‘The House that Fell not.’. The idea for restoring St Davids Cathedral had been planted much earlier, in the 1780s and 1790s during the Gothic revival.
Aug 3, 2009 · Six centuries later, there would be at least 60 parish churches dedicated to him, extending from St David's to Herefordshire, from Gower to the upper Wye Valley.
Mar 5, 2023 · It was a tradition recorded from the tenth century onward and which persisted until the Reformation in the 16th century, when the Church of England broke away from the Catholic Church. The...
Apr 15, 2021 · The church was consecrated in 1131, but due to the heightened interest, the building of a bigger church commenced in 1181, which is the current cathedral. Unfortunately, St Davids Cathedral suffered the collapse of a tower in 1220, and then it was almost destroyed in the big earthquake of 1247/1248.
