Saint Gwrhai was a 5th-century saint of Wales.
He is known from a 10th-century hagiographyNicholas Orme, The Saints of Cornwall (Oxford University Press, 2000) page 133. and is of disputed historicity. He was reputedly the founder of the Church at Penstrowed, Montgomeryshire, and one at Caerleon.Rice Rees, An essay on the Welsh saints or the primitive christians who were founders of churches in Wales. (Google eBook) (Longman, 1836)page 231. He was a colleague of Deiniol Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines. and was a son of Caw of Strathclyde. The Lives of British Saints . He is supposedly buried in the churchyard at Penstrowed. Church of St Gwrhai, Penstrowed, Montgomeryshire Churches Survey.
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