Editing Parish (section)

===Church in Wales===
[[File:St James's Church, Manorbier - geograph.org.uk - 928738.jpg|thumb|[[St James's Church, Manorbier|St James's]] church in [[Manorbier]], [[Pembrokeshire]], is a parish church dating from the 12th century and is a Grade I listed building]]
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The Church in Wales was [[Welsh Church Act 1914|disestablished]] in 1920 and is made up of six dioceses. It retained the parish system and parishes were also civil administration areas until [[Community (Wales)|communities]] were established in 1974, but did not necessarily share the same boundaries. The reduction in the numbers of worshippers, and the increasing costs of maintaining often ancient buildings, led over time to parish reorganisation, parish groupings and Rectorial Benefices (merged parishes led by a Rector).

In 2010, the Church in Wales engaged the Rt Rev [[Richard Harries]] (Lord Harries of Pentregarth), a former Church of England Bishop of Oxford; Prof [[Charles Handy]]; and Prof Patricia Peattie, to carry out a review into the organisation of the Church and make recommendations as to its future shape. The group published its report ("Church in Wales Review") in July 2012 and proposed that parishes should be reorganised into larger Ministry Areas (Ardaloedd Gweinidogaeth). It stated that "the parish system, as originally set up ... is no longer sustainable" and suggested that the Ministry Areas should each have a leadership team containing lay people as well as clergy, following the principles of "collaborative ministry".<ref>{{cite report |last1=Harries |first1=Richard |last2=Handy |first2=Charles |last3=Peattie |first3=Patricia |date=July 2012 |title=Church in Wales Review |publisher=The Church in Wales |url=https://churchinwales.contentfiles.net/media/documents/Church_in_Wales_Review_2012.pdf |access-date=26 January 2025}}</ref> Over the next decade, the six dioceses all implemented the report, with the final Ministry Areas being instituted in 2022. In the [[Diocese of Saint Asaph]] (Llanelwy), they are known as Mission Areas (Ardaloedd Cenhadaeth).