Edwin Ronald Barnes (6 February 19356 February 2019) was a British
Roman Catholic
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priest and a former
Church of England
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bishop. He was the
Anglican
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Bishop of Richborough
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History
The see was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dat ...
from 1995 to 2001 and was also formerly the president of the
Church Union
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.
Anglican ministry
Barnes was educated at
Plymouth College
Plymouth College is a co-educational independent school in Plymouth, Devon.
History
The school was established in 1877. In 1896 Plymouth College bought Mannamead School (founded in 1854), and was temporarily known as Plymouth and Mannamead Co ...
and
Pembroke College, Oxford
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. He began his ministry with a curacy at St Mark's
North End, Portsmouth
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Farncombe
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and
Hessle
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. In 1987 he became Principal of
St Stephen's House, Oxford
St Stephen's House is an Anglican theological college and one of five permanent private halls of the University of Oxford, England. It will cease to be a permanent private hall in 2023.
The college has a very small proportion of undergraduate s ...
, an
Anglican
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theological college. He was made a deacon on
Trinity Sunday
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1960 (12 June) and ordained a priest the next Trinity Sunday (28 May 1961), both times by John Phillips,
Anglican Bishop of Portsmouth
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The diocese covers south-east Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and has its see in the City of Portsmouth, where the seat is ...
, at
Portsmouth Cathedral
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. In 1995 he was chosen to be the first Bishop of Richborough, a
provincial episcopal visitor
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in the
Province of Canterbury
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, and consecrated a bishop at
Westminster Abbey
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on 20 July 1995. He retired in 2001.
Reception into the Catholic Church
In October 2010, Barnes was interviewed by ''
The Tablet
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History
''The Tablet'' was launched in 1840 by a Quaker convert ...
'' magazine on the possibility of joining the proposed
personal ordinariate
A personal ordinariate for former Anglicans, shortened as personal ordinariate or Anglican ordinariate,"...the liturgies approved for the Anglican ordinariates..." "Bishop Stephen Lopes of the Anglican Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter..." ...
in the Roman Catholic Church for former Anglicans (which was established as the
Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
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in January 2011). He said that he wanted to join "because the Anglican Church is no longer the one holy and apostolic Church it says it is." On 6 January 2011, Barnes announced that he intended being received into the Catholic Church.
On 21 January 2011 he and his wife, Jane, were received into the Catholic Church at the Church of Our Lady & St Joseph, Lymington by Monsignor Peter Ryan, himself a former Anglican. He was ordained to the diaconate on 11 February 2011 in the domestic chapel at Bishop's House, Portsmouth by
Crispian Hollis
Roger Francis Crispian Hollis (born 17 November 1936, in Bristol) is the Bishop Emeritus of Portsmouth for the Roman Catholic Church.
Early life
Crispian Hollis' parents were Christopher Hollis (1902–1977), the author and parliamentarian, an ...
,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth
The Bishop of Portsmouth is the Ordinary of the Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth in the Province of Southwark, England.
. He was ordained to the priesthood on 5 March 2011 by the same bishop in the
Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Portsmouth
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, for the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. In June 2012 he was elevated to the rank of
monsignor
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