Daniel Davies (7 November 1863 - 23 August 1928) was the

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Bishop of Bangor The Bishop of Bangor is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Bangor. The see is based in the city of Bangor where the bishop's seat (''cathedra'') is at Cathedral Church of Saint Deiniol. The ''Report of the Commissioners appointed ...

from 1925 until his death. Davies was educated at

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. He held

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at Conway and Bangor before becoming

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St Asaph Cathedral The Cathedral Church of Saints Asaph and Cyndeyrn, commonly called St Asaph Cathedral ( cy, Eglwys Gadeiriol Llanelwy), is a cathedral in St Asaph, Denbighshire, north Wales. It is the episcopal seat of the Bishop of St Asaph. The cathedral d ...

and then the

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. He was

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of the

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of the

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in 1912, by which time he was a residential canon at

, a post he held until his ordination as a bishop.Bangor Civic Society
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1863 births Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Bishops of Bangor 20th-century bishops of the Church in Wales 1928 deaths {{Anglican-bishop-stub