Diocese of Newcastle

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Diocese of Newcastle
Church of England
Province: York
Arms of the Bishop of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne, England.jpg

Newcastle Cathedral
Bishop: Martin Wharton
Cathedral: Newcastle Cathedral
Organisation
Suffragan
bishop(s):
Assistant Bishop of Newcastle
Archdeaconries: Lindisfarne, Northumberland
No. of parishes: 177
No. of churches: 242
Details
Website: newcastle.anglican.org

The Diocese of Newcastle is a Church of England diocese covering Northumberland. Its seat is Newcastle Cathedral in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, at the southern edge of the diocese but at the heart of its greatest concentrated population. It includes also the Cumberland parish of Alston.

The diocese was carved out of the Diocese of Durham 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 cathedral is Newcastle Cathedral, which until 1882 was the Parish Church of St Nicholas, and this is the seat of the Bishop of Newcastle.

Bishops of Newcastle

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
1907 1915 Norman Straton Translated from Sodor and Man.
1915 1927 Herbert Wild
1927 1941 Harold Bilbrough Had been Bishop of Dover
1941 1957 Noel Hudson Previously Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak then assistant bishop of St Albans. Later translated to Ely.
1957 1972 Hugh Ashdown
1973 1980 Ronald Bowlby Translated to Southwark.
1981 1997 Alec Graham
1997 present Martin Wharton
Source(s):[2][3]

Outside links

References

  1. London Gazette: no. 25110, p. 2393, 23 May 1882. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  2. "Historical successions: Newcastle". Crockford's Clerical Directory. http://www.crockford.org.uk/listing.asp?id=815. Retrieved 14 July 2012. 
  3. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, died E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 261. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. 

Notes



Dioceses of the Church of England

Province of Canterbury:
Bath & Wells •
Birmingham • Bristol • Canterbury • Chelmsford • Chichester • Coventry • Derby • Ely • Exeter • Gibraltar in Europe • Gloucester • Guildford • Hereford • Leicester • Lichfield • Lincoln • London • Norwich • Oxford • Peterborough • Portsmouth • Rochester • Saint Albans • Saint Edmundsbury & Ipswich • Salisbury • Southwark • Truro • Winchester • Worcester
Province of York:
Blackburn •
Carlisle • Chester • Durham • Leeds • Liverpool • Manchester • Newcastle • Sheffield • Sodor & Man • Southwell & Nottingham • York