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Disestablishment of the Church in Wales

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jun 18, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 25.

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Disestablishment of the Church in Wales

The bill disestablishing the church in Wales again passed the House of Commons by a majority of seventy-seven votes. It will become a law regardless of the House of Lords. This is the first measure to pass the requisite number of times since the adoption of the Parliament act which took away the Lords’ final veto power, and for this reason, as well as for its own importance, it has attracted special attention. It is provided that the Church of England in Wales and Monmouth shall lose its government subvention; cathedrals and ecclesiastical corporations shall be dissolved; ecclesiastical courts and laws will lose their legal force, and the bishops of the four Welsh dioceses shall cease to be members of the House of Lords.