Alfred Edwards (bishop)

Alfred George Edwards ( born November 2, 1848 in Llanymawddwy, Gwynedd, Wales, † July 22, 1937 ) was an Anglican bishop and primate of the Church in Wales.

Edwards was born in November 1848, the son of William Edwards and his wife Louisa. After he visited the Welsh Educational Institution in Llandovery for a year and received private lessons, Edwards enrolled in January 1870 at Jesus College, University of Oxford. In 1874, he received his Honours degree. His Master of Arts awarded Edwards 1876. Since 1875 he was Warden (head ) of Llandovery College.

In 1874, Edwards was ordained a deacon. A year later his ordination. 1885, he was transferred to the rectory of St. Peter, Carmarthen. In addition, he was in the same year private secretary to William Basil Jones, the Bishop of St. David's. In February 1889 Edwards was nominated as Bishop of St Asaph. His episcopal ordination was then on March 25 at Westminster Abbey instead. Edwards was a staunch opponent of separation from the Church of England and the independence of the Church in Wales. As a result of these Welsh Church Act of 1914 then in 1920 came about, he was enthroned on 1 June 1920 in the St Asaph Cathedral as the first Archbishop of Wales and was Primate of the now declared independent Church in Wales. In June 1934, he resigned from his bishop offices.

Edwards was married in 1875 to Caroline Edwards ( † 1884). From this marriage two sons and three daughters were born. In 1886 he married again, this time Mary Laidley († 1912), and became the father of two other children, a son and a daughter. 1917 Edwards ultimately went with Margaret Armistead ( † after 1937) his third marriage a. Edwards died on July 22, 1937 and was buried in St Asaph, Denbighshire.

Honors

Edwards received several honorary doctoral degrees:

• Doctor of Laws ( LL.D. ) from the University of Wales
• Doctor of Civil Law (DCL ) at the University of Oxoford
• Doctor of Laws ( LL.D. ) from the University of Cambridge

In 1920, Honorary Fellow of Jesus College was.

Works

• Landmarks in the History of the Welsh Church ( 1912)
• Memories ( 1927)