Lists of Welsh People - Religious Figures

Religious Figures

  • Saint Cadoc (born c. 497)
  • Thomas Charles (1755–1814), Nonconformist minister
  • David Davies (1741–1819) Clergyman and social historian
  • Saint David (died 601?), patron saint of Wales
  • Christmas Evans (1766–1838), Nonconformist minister
  • Saints Philip Evans and John Lloyd, Roman Catholic priests and two of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
  • Ann Griffiths (1776–1805), religious poet and hymn-writer
  • David Griffiths (1792–1863), missionary to Madagascar, translator of the first Bible written in an African language
  • Saint Richard Gwyn (c.1537–1584)
  • Howell Harris (1714–1773), Methodist minister
  • Saint Illtud (died mid-6th century)
  • Bishop William Morgan (1545–1604), translator of the first complete Bible in Welsh (1588)
  • Evan Roberts (1878–1950), Methodist preacher in the Welsh Revival
  • John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) (1822–1877), Methodist preacher and hymn-writer
  • Daniel Rowland (1713–1790), Methodist preacher in the Welsh Revival
  • William Salesbury (c. 1520–1584?), Welsh translator of the New Testament
  • Rowan Williams (born 1950), Archbishop of Canterbury appointed 2003
  • William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), hymn-writer

Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland

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