Diocese of Newcastle
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Diocese of Newcastle
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| Location | |
| Ecclesiastical province | York |
| Archdeaconries | Lindisfarne, Northumberland |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 177 |
| Churches | 242 |
| Information | |
| Cathedral | Newcastle Cathedral |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Christine Hardman, Bishop of Newcastle |
| Suffragan | Frank White, Assistant Bishop of Newcastle[N 1] |
| Archdeacons | Geoff Miller, Archdeacon of Northumberland Peter Robinson, Archdeacon of Lindisfarne |
| Website | |
| newcastle.anglican.org | |
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 northern part of Tyne and Wear). The area of Alston Moor in Cumbria also forms part of the diocese.
The diocese came into being on 23 May 1882,[1] and was one of four created by the Bishoprics Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 68) for industrial areas with rapidly expanding populations. The area of the diocese was taken from the part of the Diocese of Durham which was north of the River Tyne, and was defined in the legislation as comprising:
"the county of Northumberland, and the counties of the towns of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Berwick-upon-Tweed, and to include such detached parts of any other county as are under any Act of Parliament deemed to form part of the county of Northumberland, or have been or can be transferred to the county of Northumberland by the justices in general or quarter sessions assembled, and to include also the ancient common law parish of Alston with its chapelries in the county of Cumberland".[1]
The cathedral is Newcastle Cathedral (until 1882 the Parish Church of St Nicholas) and the bishop is Christine Hardman.
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Bishops
The diocesan Bishop of Newcastle is the ordinary of the diocese and is assisted by the Assistant Bishop of Newcastle (who is technically a stipendiary assistant bishop since there is no suffragan bishop in the diocese – although there is one lapsed suffragan see.) Alternative episcopal oversight (for parishes in the diocese who reject the ministry of priests who are women) is provided by the provincial episcopal visitor (PEV) the Bishop suffragan of Beverley, Glyn Webster. He is licensed as an honorary assistant bishop of the diocese in order to facilitate his work there. Besides Webster, there are two retired honorary assistant bishops licensed in the diocese:
- 2003–present: A retired Bishop suffragan of Bedford, John Richardson, lives in Bewcastle, Cumbria and is also licensed in Carlisle diocese.[2]
- 2005–present: Stephen Pedley, retired Bishop sufffragan of Lancaster, lives in Warden, Northumberland.[3]
- 2014–present: Stephen Platten, Rector of St Michael Cornhill (Diocese of London) and retired Bishop of Wakefield (also in London and Southwark dioceses.)[4]
- 2014–present: John Packer, Bishop of Ripon and Leeds and former Bishop suffragan of Warrington, retired in 2014 to Cullercoats.[5][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The London Gazette: no. 25110. p. 2393. 23 May 1882. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
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Notes
- ↑ The Assistant Bishop of Newcastle is not technically or legally a suffragan bishop, but generally acts as one in every other way.
