Bishop of Newcastle (England)

Diocesan bishop in the Church of England

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

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Bishops of Newcastle

From  | Until  | Incumbent  | Notes
1882  | 1896  |  Ernest Wilberforce | Translated to Chichester.
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 bishop of St 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

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For those full-time Assistant Bishops of Newcastle who preceded the Bishop suffragan of Berwick, see Bishop of Berwick.

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

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1. ^ "Christine Elizabeth Hardman". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
2. ^ a b "Diary (February 2023)". Archbishop of York. 1 December 2022. Archived from the original on 3 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
3. ^ 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)
4. ^ 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.
5. ^ 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.
6. ^ "Historical successions: Newcastle". Crockford's Clerical Directory. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
7. ^ 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.
8. ^ "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.
9. ^ "Clerical Obituary". Church Times. No. 4916\. 3 May 1957. p. 15\. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 15 February 2021 - via UK Press Online archives.
10. ^ "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.

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Bishops of Newcastle

* Ernest Wilberforce
* Edgar Jacob
* Arthur Lloyd
* Norman Straton
* Herbert Wild
* Harold Bilbrough
* Noel Hudson
* Hugh Ashdown
* Ronald Bowlby
* Alec Graham
* Martin Wharton
* Frank White (acting)
* Christine Hardman
* Mark Wroe (acting)
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