Qualla: Diocese of St Davids https://qualla.com/diocese-of-st-davids en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/diocese-of-st-davids-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Diocese of St Davids https://qualla.com/diocese-of-st-davids Diocese of St Davids: Introduction https://qualla.com/diocese-of-st-davids/ Photo credit Public domain. St Davids has 1,772 people in it, which makes it the smallest city in the United Kingdom by population. It is a city all the same, because in 1995 Queen Elizabeth II said it was. What pushed it into city status, despite the missing thousands of inhabitants, is the building at the bottom of the valley: a cathedral begun in 1181 on the site of a monastery founded six hundred years earlier by Dewi Sant himself, the patron saint of Wales. The diocese this cathedral anchors stretches across most of southwest Wales, and the see has existed in unbroken succession since the saint's lifetime.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/diocese-of-st-davids-wp/gchr-diocese-of-st-davids-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Diocese of St Davids: Dewi's Mountain https://qualla.com/diocese-of-st-davids/ Photo credit Public domain. The history of the diocese traditionally traces to Dewi, known in English as David, in the second half of the sixth century. The records before the Normans are fragmentary, surviving only as scattered references in the Annales Cambriae and the Brut y Tywysogion. What we know is t...

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