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diocese extends into the counties of Caernarvon, Merioneth, Montgomery, Denbigh, and over the whole of Anglesey. Attached to the cathedral there are a dean, three archdeacons, viz. Anglesey, Bangor, and Merioneth, a precentor, chancellor, and treasurer, two canons or prebends, and two vicars choral.

A bishopric is said to have been erected here before the middle of the sixth century by Malgo Conan prince of North Wales.

was made the first bishop of the see about the year 516. He is supposed to have died about 10th Dec. 544, and been buried at Bardsey.

was bishop of Bangor or Venedotia; ob. about 811.

held the see about 940. King Edgar is said to have refounded the cathedral in 975.

was the first bishop of Bangor, about whom there is any certainty, but the date of his taking possession of the see is not known; he was consecrated by Thomas archbishop of York during the vacancy of