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The '''Bishop of Swansea''' was an [[Episcopal polity|episcopal]] title used by a [[suffragan bishop]] of the [[Diocese of St David's]],<ref name="obit">"DeathThe ofSuffragan Bishop Lloydof Swansea" in the Carmarthen Journal, 18Carmarthen, 4 JuneJuly 19161890, p. 52 ([http://cymru1914newspapers.org/enlibrary.wales/view/newspaper3761440/36787173761442/415 Archive] accessed 7 October 2017)</ref> in the [[Church of England]] [[Province of Canterbury]] until 1920 and then in the [[Church in Wales]].<!-- The See was created by [[Order in Council]] on ??? (under the [[Suffragans Nomination Act 1888]]) and-->It took its name after the town of [[Swansea]], then in [[Glamorganshire]]; since the erection of the [[Diocese of Swansea and Brecon]] in 1923, the title has been inunited to the diocesan [[abeyanceBishop of Swansea and Brecon]].<ref>{{Church Times | title = in memoriam: The Bishop of Swansea and Brecon | archive = 1934_02_09_171 | issue = 3707 | date = 9 February 1934 | page = 171 | accessed = 7 October 2017 }}</ref>

| [[Church in Wales]] from 1920; elected first diocesan [[Bishop of Swansea and Brecon]] at that diocese's erection.<ref>[http://www.cinw.org/swanbrec/bishop/ Diocesan web-site] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110725173105/http://www.cinw.org/swanbrec/bishop/ Archived] 25 July 2011; accessed 14 October 2017)</ref>{{dead}}

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