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Bishops of St Davids

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Saint David
patron saint of Wales
William Laud
Archbishop of Canterbury (1573-1645)
Teilo
Welsh bishop and saint
Robert Lowth
Bishop of St David's; Bishop of Oxford; Bishop of London (1710-1787)
Connop Thirlwall
British bishop & historian (1797–1875)
George Bull
English Bishop of St David's
Henry Chichele
Bishop of St. David's; Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas Burgess
English author, philosopher, Bishop of Saint David's and Bishop of Salisbury
Samuel Horsley
Bishop of St David's; Bishop of Rochester; Dean of Westminster; Bishop of St Asaph (1733-1806)
Joanna Penberthy
Anglican priest
Lord George Murray
British bishop (1761-1803)
Richard Davies
bishop, born 1505
Rhygyfarch
Rhygyfarch or Rhigyfarch (in contemporary late Old Welsh orthography Ricemarch, 1057–1099), eldest son of Sulien, whom he may have succeeded in 1091 as Bishop of St David's, was the author of the earliest surviving and standard Life of Saint David. The original text was written in Latin but was translated into Welsh later in the Middle Ages as Buchedd Dewi. The translation did much to enhance the cult status of Saint David in Wales and was in itself an important landmark in Medieval Welsh literature. He also wrote Latin poems, including one dealing with the different versions of the Psalter, a
John of Thoresby
Bishop of St. David's; Bishop of Worcester; Archbishop of York; Lord Privy Seal; Lord Chancellor of England
Sulien
thumb|Plaque for Sulien, Llanbadarn Fawr Sulien was an 11th-century Bishop of St David's, for two periods (1073-1078 and 1079/80-1085/6). He died about 1090/1.
Basil Jones
British bishop
Edward Willes
English Anglican bishop and cryptanalyst
Thomas Langton
English Catholic bishop; (died 1501)
John Owen
bishop of St David's (1854–1926)