Editing Wales (section)

===Religion===
{{main|Religion in Wales}}
[[File:StDavidsCathedral Tower&SouthTransept.JPG|upright=0.75|thumb|[[St. David's Cathedral]], Pembrokeshire]]
Forms of [[Christianity in Wales|Christianity]] have dominated religious life in what is now Wales for more than 1,400 years.<ref>L. Alcock, ''Kings and Warriors, Craftsmen and Priests in Northern Britain AD 550–850'' (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland), {{ISBN|0-903903-24-5}}, p. 63.</ref><ref>Lucas Quensel von Kalben, "The British Church and the Emergence of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom", in T. Dickinson and D. Griffiths, eds, ''Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History, 10: Papers for the 47th Sachsensymposium, York, September 1996'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), {{ISBN|086054138X}}, p. 93.</ref>
The 2021 census recorded that 46.5 per cent had "No religion", more than any single religious affiliation and up from 32.1 per cent in 2011.<ref name=":5">{{cite web |title=Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion in Wales (Census 2021) |url=https://gov.wales/ethnic-group-national-identity-language-and-religion-wales-census-2021-html |access-date=29 November 2022 |website=GOV.WALES |date=29 November 2022 }}</ref> The largest religion in Wales is Christianity, with 43.6 per cent of the population describing themselves as Christian in the 2021 census.<ref name=":5" /> The [[patron saint]] of Wales is [[Saint David]] ({{lang|cy|Dewi Sant}}), with [[Saint David's Day]] ({{lang|cy|Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant}}) celebrated annually on 1 March.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Catholic Encyclopedia: ''St. David'' |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04640b.htm |access-date=22 May 2015 |publisher=New Advent}}</ref> The early 20th century saw a religious revival, the [[1904–1905 Welsh Revival]], which started through the evangelism of [[Evan Roberts (minister)|Evan Roberts]] and brought large numbers of converts, sometimes whole communities, to non-Anglican Christianity.<ref>Davies (2008), p. 739</ref>

The [[Church in Wales]] with 56,000 adherents has the largest attendance of the denominations.<ref name="Faith in Wales">{{Cite web |year=2008 |title=Faith in Wales, Counting for Communities |url=http://www.gweini.org.uk/download/English%2003_03%20comp%20smaller.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024162623/http://www.gweini.org.uk/download/English%2003_03%20comp%20smaller.pdf |archive-date=24 October 2013 |access-date=6 September 2010 |page=21}}</ref> It is a province of the [[Anglican Communion]], and was part of the Church of England until disestablishment in 1920 under the [[Welsh Church Act 1914]]. The first [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|Independent Church]] in Wales was founded at [[Llanvaches]] in 1638 by [[William Wroth]]. The [[Presbyterian Church of Wales]] was born out of the [[Welsh Methodist revival]] in the 18th century and seceded from the [[Church of England]] in 1811.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glamorgan Archives, Glamorgan Presbyterian Church Marriage registers |url=http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id=33&coll_id=76790&expand= |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427122509/http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id=33&coll_id=76790&expand= |archive-date=27 April 2016 |access-date=9 September 2010 |publisher=Archives Wales}}</ref> The second largest attending faith in Wales is [[Roman Catholicism in the United Kingdom|Roman Catholic]], with an estimated 43,000 adherents.<ref name="Faith in Wales" />

Non-Christian religions are small in Wales, making up approximately 2.7 per cent of the population.<ref name="2011 Census Faith">{{Cite news |date=11 December 2012 |title=Statistical bulletin: 2011 Census: Key Statistics for Wales, March 2011 |publisher=Office for National Statistics |url=http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-unitary-authorities-in-wales/stb-2011-census-key-statistics-for-wales.html#tab---Religion |access-date=11 December 2012}}</ref> [[Islam in the United Kingdom|Islam]] is the largest, with 24,000 (0.8 per cent) reported Muslims in the 2011 census.<ref name="2011 Census Faith" /> There are also communities of [[Hinduism in the United Kingdom|Hindus]] and [[Sikhism in the United Kingdom|Sikhs]], mainly in the south Wales cities of Newport, Cardiff and Swansea, while the largest concentration of [[Buddhism|Buddhists]] is in the western rural county of [[Ceredigion]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Religion in Britain |url=http://www.diversiton.com/religion/census/britain.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150424025633/http://www.diversiton.com/religion/census/britain.asp |archive-date=24 April 2015 |access-date=21 September 2010 |publisher=diversiton.com}}</ref> [[History of the Jews in Wales|Judaism]] was the first non-Christian faith to be established in Wales since Roman times, though by 2001 the community had declined to approximately 2,000<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 June 2006 |title=History of religion: Multicultural Wales |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/religion/sites/timeline/pages/religion_in_wales_15.shtml |access-date=19 June 2010 |publisher=BBC}}</ref> and as of 2019 only numbers in the hundreds.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Prior |first=Neil |date=20 July 2019 |title=Recording Wales' disappearing Jewish history |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-49030675 |access-date=19 November 2019}}</ref>