This essay examines the colonial relationship between the Anglican Church and the British Empire's Welsh subjects across the nineteenth century. Focusing on the small output of a group of exiled Welsh clergymen (known as The Association of Welsh Clergy in the West Riding of the County of York), I consider Welsh Anglican responses to the church's neglect of Wales (exemplified by no Welsh-speaking bishop being assigned to a Welsh diocese between 1727 and 1870, despite the majority of the population not speaking English). The association believed that preaching in a foreign language such as English constituted a perversion from proper church practice and that this both reflected hegemonic attitudes toward indigenous and non-English speaking populations and pushed the Welsh population toward dissent. In response, the association sought to combine church reform with Welsh nationalism by elevating Welsh speakers as the spiritual inheritors of the true and primitive British church. They promulgated their visions in annual reports published between 1852 and 1856 into which they channeled other contemporary voices speaking against tyrannical and “Romish” Anglican Church practices. Through an analysis of post-Reformation Welsh church histories and the reports’ usages of such terminology as “alienation,” “Catholicism,” and “patriotism,” I reveal how the Welsh national identity the association fashioned at once operated within and aspired to correct the Anglican Church.

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“一个真正的爱国乐队！”：威尔士圣公会抵抗殖民地维多利亚教堂

本文考察了 19 世纪英国圣公会与大英帝国威尔士臣民之间的殖民关系。着眼于一群流亡的威尔士神职人员（被称为约克郡西骑马的威尔士神职人员协会）的少量产出，我认为威尔士圣公会对教会忽视威尔士的反应（以没有说威尔士语的主教为例） 1727 年至 1870 年间被分配到威尔士教区，尽管大多数人不会说英语）。该协会认为，用英语等外语讲道构成了对正确教会实践的歪曲，这既反映了对土著和非英语人口的霸权态度，也将威尔士人口推向了异议。作为回应，该协会试图通过将讲威尔士语的人提升为真正原始的英国教会的精神继承者，将教会改革与威尔士民族主义结合起来。他们在 1852 年至 1856 年间发布的年度报告中公布了他们的愿景，他们在其中引导了其他当代声音，反对暴虐和“罗马式”英国国教教会的做法。通过对改革后威尔士教会历史的分析以及报告对“异化”、“天主教”和“爱国主义”等术语的使用，我揭示了该协会如何立即塑造的威尔士民族认同在内部运作并渴望纠正圣公会教堂。他们在 1852 年至 1856 年间发布的年度报告中公布了他们的愿景，他们在其中引导了其他当代声音，反对暴虐和“罗马式”英国国教教会的做法。通过对改革后威尔士教会历史的分析以及报告对“异化”、“天主教”和“爱国主义”等术语的使用，我揭示了该协会如何立即塑造的威尔士民族认同在内部运作并渴望纠正圣公会教堂。他们在 1852 年至 1856 年间发布的年度报告中公布了他们的愿景，他们在其中引导了其他当代声音，反对暴虐和“罗马式”英国国教教会的做法。通过对改革后威尔士教会历史的分析以及报告对“异化”、“天主教”和“爱国主义”等术语的使用，我揭示了该协会如何立即塑造的威尔士民族认同在内部运作并渴望纠正圣公会教堂。