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'' Owen Francis Swindlehurst (10 May 1928 – 28 August 1995) was Auxiliary Bishop of the

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and Titular Bishop of

Cuncacestre Cuncacestre (Chester-le-Street) was a seat of the Anglo Saxon Bishop of Lindisfarne, and subsists as a Roman Catholic titular see. Start of the Diocese The church was established to house the body of Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Bishop of Lindisfa ...

under Bishops Hugh Lindsay and Ambrose Griffiths from 1977 until his death. Born at

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, he studied in Rome and was ordained to the priesthood on 11 July 1954, aged 26. On 10 June 1977, aged 49, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle by

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, and nominated to the titular see of Cuncacestre (St Cuthbert's or

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). He was consecrated on 25 July 1977 at

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. Together with retiring Bishop Hugh Lindsay he acted as one of the principal co-consecrating bishops at the Episcopal Ordination of Abbot Ambrose Griffiths, who became the twelfth

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. Bishop Swindlehurst died on 28 August 1995, aged 67, and was buried at Our Blessed Lady Immaculate, Washington,

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. He had been a priest for 41 years and a bishop for 18 years.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Swindlehurst, Owen 1928 births 1995 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in England 20th-century Roman Catholic titular bishops English College, Rome alumni