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 LLANDAF F.

��J. HE diocese of Llandaff, before the passing of statute 6 & 7 Will. IV. c. 77, contained the greater portion of the counties of Glamorgan and Monmouth, and by that act the whole of these shires was placed within that see.

In this cathedral, before the alterations made by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, there were an arch- deacon, chancellor, precentor, treasurer, and nine prebendaries 1.

The deanery of Llandaff was founded and endowed in Nov. 184;.

The archdeaconry of Monmouth, containing the whole county of Monmouth, was created by order in council 31st Jan. 1844.

BISHOPS.

Dubritius is the first bishop of Llandaff about whom there is any certainty, but tradition asserts that the see was founded about the year [81 by king Lucius, and by him conferred on Elvanus-. Not only is the time unknown when Dubritius took possession of the see, but also when he died 3. He is supposed to have been the first archbishop of Wales, and to have held his see at Caerleon as well as at Llandaff 4.

��1 By statute 3 & 4 Vict. c. 113 3 The Liber Landavensis places 19, no appointment is to be it in 612. Sexcentesimo duodeci- made to vacancies until the mo anno incarnationis dominicae number of canons is reduced to S.Dubricius Landavensis Eccle- four ; and by statute 6 & 7 Vict, siae Episcopus xviii. Kal. Decem- c. 77 2, the four canonries are bris migravit ad Dominum. See to be in the direct patronage of also Angl. Sacra, pars ii. p. 661. the bishop. 4 But see what is stated under

2 Liber Landavensis et Anglia St. David's, vol. i. p. 287. Sacra, pars ii. p. 667.

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