Those were the days...

How times change!
I'm grateful to a friend and brother priest for this link to a short British Pathé newsreel featuring Dr C.A.H. Green, the first Bishop of Monmouth, consecrating a church in his diocese in 1926.
And they tell us now that traditional Anglo-Catholicism is essentially foreign to Anglicanism itself  and, like those who are unfashionable enough to profess it, has no place in the Welsh Church today..... perhaps that is really the future, but the history of the province and the words and actions of its 'founding fathers' would seem rather to agree with us....
Continuity and legitimacy depend upon more than simply occupying the same physical space.

Bishop (later Archbishop) Green, of course, in many ways can lay claim to having been the real founder of the disestablished Church in Wales, as evidenced by his work in framing much of the province's original constitution ( see his The Setting of the Constitution of the Church in Wales,  Sweet & Maxwell, 1937) 
As we've remarked before, it's only with hindsight that it becomes clear that the Constitution contains a fatal, though historically forgiveable and - perhaps - theologically unavoidable flaw (who could foresee in the 1920s Anglicanism's later headlong descent into liberal heresy?), the church life of the province being made wholly dependent for its own continued orthodoxy on the future appointment of orthodox, catholic bishops. 
As we can see, without that, 'things fall apart'..... 

BISHOP OF MONMOUTH