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  1. The Welsh Anglican Church, independent from
  2. the Church of England. The Welsh church
  3. became strongly Protestant in the 16th
  4. century, but in the 17th and 18th centuries
  5. declined from being led by a succession of
  6. English-appointed bishops. Disestablished by
  7. an act of Parliament in 1920, with its
  8. endowments appropriated, the Church in Wales
  9. today comprises six dioceses (with bishops
  10. elected by an electoral college of clergy and
  11. lay people) with an archbishop elected from
  12. among the six bishops.
  13.