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Bishop of Newcastle (England)

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Bishop of Newcastle

Bishopric
anglican


Incumbent: Helen-Ann Hartley
Location
Ecclesiastical province	York
Residence	Bishop's House, Gosforth
Information
First holder	Ernest Wilberforce
Established	1882
Diocese	Newcastle
Cathedral	Newcastle Cathedral

The Bishop of Newcastle is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Newcastle in the Province of York.

The diocese presently covers the County of Northumberland and the Alston Moor area of Cumbria. The see is in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Nicholas, a parish church elevated to cathedral status in 1882. The bishop's residence is Bishop's House, Gosforth — not far north of Newcastle city centre.^[1]

The office has existed since the founding of the diocese in 1882 under Queen Victoria by division of the diocese of Durham. Helen-Ann Hartley became diocesan Bishop of Newcastle on 3 February 2023, the confirmation of her election.^[2]

List of bishops[edit]

Bishops of Newcastle
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1882	1896	Ernest Wilberforce	TranslatedtoChichester.
1896	1903	Edgar Jacob	Translated to St Albans.
1903	1907	Arthur Lloyd	Translated from Thetford.
1907	1915	Norman Straton	Translated from Sodor and Man.
1915	1927	Herbert Wild
1927	1941	Harold Bilbrough	Translated from Dover.
1941	1957	Noel Hudson	Previously Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak then assistant bishopofSt Albans; translated to Ely.
1957	1972	Hugh Ashdown
1973	1980	Ronald Bowlby	Translated to Southwark.
1981	1997	Alec Graham	Translated from Bedford.
1997	2014	Martin Wharton	Translated from Kingston-upon-Thames.
2014	2015	Frank White	Acting bishop, as Assistant Bishop of Newcastle
2015	2021	Christine Hardman	Retired 30 November 2021.^[3]^[4]
2021	2023	Mark Wroe Bishop of Berwick	Acting bishop, as Bishop of Berwick.^[4]
2023	present	Helen-Ann Hartley	Elected 28 November 2022;^[5] confirmed 3 February 2023.^[2]
Source(s):^[6]^[7]

Assistant bishops[edit]

Among those others who have served the diocese as assistant bishops have been:

1924 – 1933 (res.): Cecil Wood, Vicar of Jesmond and former Bishop of Melanesia^[8]^[9]
Anthony Hunter resigned as assistant bishop effective 1 September 1980.^[10]

References[edit]

^ "Christine Elizabeth Hardman". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 6 December 2015.

^ ^a ^b "Diary (February 2023)". Archbishop of York. 1 December 2022. Archived from the original on 3 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.

^ Diocese of Newcastle — Confirmation of Election Service for the 12th Bishop of Newcastle Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed 23 September 2015)

^ ^a ^b "Bishop Christine bids emotional farewell as Bishop of Newcastle". Diocese of Newcastle. Archived from the original on 21 November 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2021.

^ Church of England in the Diocese of Newcastle [@NclDiocese] (28 November 2022). "The College of Canons at @nclcathedral met today to formally elect..." (Tweet). Archived from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2022 – via Twitter.

^ "Historical successions: Newcastle". Crockford's Clerical Directory. Retrieved 14 July 2012.

^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 261. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

^ "Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Bishop Cecil Wood". Church Times. No. 3194. 11 April 1924. p. 441. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 15 February 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.

^ "Clerical Obituary". Church Times. No. 4916. 3 May 1957. p. 15. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 15 February 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.

^ "Newcastle's new Assistant Bishop". Church Times. No. 6117. 9 October 1980. p. 20. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 8 September 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.