Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff - Ordinaries

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of the Welsh District

• Thomas Joseph Brown, O.S.B. (Appointed on 5 June 1840 – Became Bishop of Newport and Menevia on 29 September 1850)

Bishops of Newport and Menevia

• Thomas Joseph Brown, O.S.B. (Appointed on 29 September 1850– Died on 12 April 1880)
• John Cuthbert Hedley, O.S.B. (Appointed on 18 February 1881 (from 1895, Bishop of Newport only) – Died on 11 November 1915)

Archbishops of Cardiff

• James Romanus Bilsborrow, O.S.B. (Appointed on 7 February 1916 – Resigned on 16 December 1920)
• Francis Edward Joseph Mostyn (Appointed on 7 March 1921 – Died on 25 October 1939)
• Michael Joseph McGrath (Appointed on 20 June 1940 – Died on 28 February 1961)
• John Aloysius Murphy (Appointed on 22 August 1961 – Retired on 25 March 1983)
• John Aloysius Ward, O.F.M. Cap. (Appointed on 25 March 1983 – Resigned on 26 October 2001)
• Peter David Smith (Appointed on 26 October 2001 – Translated to Southwark on 30 April 2010)
• George Stack (Appointed on 19 April 2011 – Present)