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The Church of England was the established Church of Wales and England until 1920, when it was disestablished in Wales and replaced by the Church in Wales, which has some 101,000 members. Nonconformist churches have the greatest number of adherents, a legacy of the 18th century when Nonconformism became associated with Welsh nationalism and with the rapidly expanding industrial communities. The chapel no longer plays the central part in Welsh life which it once did, when 80 per cent of the population belonged to a Nonconformist Church, but many thousands of Welsh people still belong to the Methodist Church, the Baptist Union, the Presbyterian (or Calvinist Methodist) Church of Wales, and the Union of Welsh Independents.