WELCOME TO THE PARISH OF SKETTY
HOLY TRINITY’S NEWS
SAINT PAUL’S Sketty was built just over 150 years ago by the Vivian family of
Singleton Abbey, and consecrated by the Bishop of St. David’s on 27th.
September 1850.
Originally serving as a satellite church of St. Mary’s in Swansea city centre,
St. Paul’s became a parish church in its own right when Sketty was designated
a parish district early in 1851.
Since then St. Paul’s has remained a vibrant Christian presence at the heart of
the Sketty community.
In response to changing social and congregational needs, major structural
alterations have been made on the building over the years, and in 1993 a new
Parish Centre was added alongside the main building, which continues to be a
tremendous resource for the church congregation and the wider community.
THE CHURCH I N WALES Christianity arrived in Briton with the Romans and continues to
flourish even after the empire that brought it fell into decline. But mass invasions of pagan
peoples from around A.D. 400 onwards pushed our native Celtic Church to the fringes of
Britain, and when these Anglo-
Celtic form but to the Catholic introduced from Rome in 507 by Augustine of Canterbury. These two
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century the established church in Wales continued to be a part of the Church o England, (there were, of
course, many other Christians living out their faith in Wales during this time
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Methodists,Presbyterians, and so on). Finally in 1920, the established church in Wales became an
independent province of the Anglican Communion, with its own Archbishop and six dioceses. The CHURCH
IN WALES now sees itself as a direct successor of the ancient Celtic church, bringing an ancient faith to a
modern world.
OUR HISTORY
