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Diocese of Newcastle The Diocese of Newcastle is a Church of England diocese based in Newcastle upon Tyne, covering the historic county of Northumberland (and therefore including the part of Tyne and Wear north of the River Tyne), as well as the area of Alston Moo ...

in the

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. The diocese presently covers the County of Northumberland and the

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area of

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. The

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is in the city of

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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,

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— not far north of

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. The office has existed since the founding of the diocese in 1882 under

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by division of the

diocese of Durham The Diocese of Durham is a Church of England diocese, based in Durham, and covering the historic county of Durham (and therefore including the part of Tyne and Wear south of the River Tyne, and excluding southern Teesdale). It was created in ...

Christine Hardman Christine Elizabeth Hardman ( Atkins; born 27 August 1951) is a retired British Anglican bishop and former Lord Spiritual. She served as Archdeacon of Lewisham, 2001–2008; Archdeacon of Lewisham & Greenwich, 2008–2012; and Bishop of ...

retired as Bishop of Newcastle effective 30 November 2021, and

Mark Wroe Mark Wroe (born 1969) is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2021, he has served as Bishop of Berwick. Previously, from 2018 to 2020, he was Archdeacon of Northumberland — both in the Church of England's Diocese of Newcastle. Biography Wroe ...

, Bishop suffragan of Berwick, became acting diocesan bishop. On 20 October 2020, it was announced that Helen-Ann Hartley, area

Bishop of Ripon The Bishop of Ripon is an episcopal title which takes its name after the city of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England. The bishop is one of the area bishops of the Diocese of Leeds in the Province of York. The area bishop of Ripon has oversight o ...

, is to be translated to Newcastle in early 2023.

List of bishops

Assistant bishops

Among those others who have served the diocese as assistant bishops have been: *19241933 (res.): Cecil Wood, Vicar of Jesmond and former Bishop of Melanesia * Anthony Hunter resigned as assistant bishop effective 1 September 1980.

References

{{Anglican Bishops & Archbishops - Great Britain

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Bishops of Newcastle A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...