Bishops of Monmouth
Charles Green
Gilbert Cunningham Joyce
Alfred Monahan
Alfred Morris
Eryl Thomas
Derrick Childs
Clifford Wright
Rowan Williams
Dominic Walker
Alfred Edwin Morris succeeded Alfred Edward Monahan in 1945. The war was over and there was great optimism in the diocese. In the nineteen forties and fifties the number of people and young families who attended church services on Sundays was high. Many diocesan organisations, from Mothers' Union to Church Men's Society and Anglican Young People's Association; Girls' Friendly Society and Church Lads' Brigade, made for vigorous diocesan life. Bishop Morris initiated the quinquennial Tintern Festivals in 1946; the Monmouth Diocesan Gazette in 1947 and the Diocesan Guild of Needlework in 1950. There was a Diocesan Mission in 1951. Vast new post-war housing estates began to appear all over the diocese and new churches were built and dedicated by the bishop.
Bishop Morris became Archbishop of Wales in 1957. St Woolos Cathedral was extended after he launched the appeal in 1958. Edwin Morris was the bishop for twenty-two years at a very formative period in the history of the diocese. He was a solid and impressive person, physically, spiritually and theologically. He gave the appearance of enjoying controversy in everything from his attack on the services of Benediction in 1946 to his pamphlet on The Christian Use of Alcoholic Beverages in 1961 to his opposition of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill in 1966 or the proposed service of reconciliation of the Anglican-Methodist re-union proposals in 1967. In December 1967 Morris retired to Lampeter at the age of seventy-three.