The Church in Wales is an Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses.
F. E. Smith, later 1st Earl of Birkenhead, opposed disestablishment.
The first Book of Common Prayer in Welsh published in 1567
A state religion is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state. A state with an official religion, while not a secular state, is not necessarily a theocracy. State religions are official or government-sanctioned establishments of a religion, but the state does not need to be under the control of the clergy, nor is the state-sanctioned religion necessarily under the control of the state.
Westminster Abbey is responsible directly to the British monarch. The Church of England is the established church in England.