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The diocesan Bishop of Newcastle is the ordinary of the diocese and is assisted by the Bishop of Berwick. 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, Stephen Race.
On the restoration of the diocese in 1850, Pius IX appointed Bishop William Hogarth, Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District, to be the first bishop of the diocese. The Parish Church of Saint Mary, Newcastle upon Tyne , designed by Augustus Welby Pugin , was selected as the seat for the new bishop, gaining cathedral status.
The present diocese covers an area of 7,700 km 2 of the counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Durham and that part of Cleveland which is north of the River Tees.The see is in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary, which was consecrated on 21 August 1860.
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The bishop's residence is Bishop's House, Gosforth — not far north of Newcastle city centre. [1] The office has existed since the founding of the diocese in 1882 under Queen Victoria by division of the diocese of Durham. Helen-Ann Hartley became diocesan Bishop of Newcastle on 3 February 2023, the confirmation of her election. [2]
The archdeaconry was formed by Order in Council on 2 September 1842 from part of the Diocese of Durham archdeaconry of Northumberland; [1] on 23 May 1882, the Diocese of Newcastle was created from those two archdeaconries.
Robert Byrne, C.O. (born 22 September 1956) is a prelate of the Catholic Church in England. He was the 14th Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Birmingham and the titular bishop of Cuncacestre.
In 2017, he also became Area Dean of the Central Newcastle Deanery. [3] In 2018, he became acting Archdeacon of Northumberland, being appointed to the position in 2019. [4] On 20 October 2020, it was announced that Wroe is to be consecrated a bishop in "early 2021", to serve as Bishop of Berwick, the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Newcastle ...