The Bishop of Newcastle is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Newcastle in the Province of York.

The diocese presently covers the County of Northumberland and the Alston Moor area of Cumbria. The see is in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Nicholas, a parish church elevated to cathedral status in 1882. The bishop's residence is Bishop's House, Gosforth — not far north of Newcastle city centre.

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.

List of bishops

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! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;" | Bishops of Newcastle

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! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 8%;" | From

! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 8%;" | Until

! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 31%;" | Incumbent

! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 48%;" | Notes

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"

| style="text-align: center;" | 1882

| style="text-align: center;" | 1896

| 60px Ernest Wilberforce

| Translated to Chichester.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"

| style="text-align: center;" | 1896

| style="text-align: center;" | 1903

| 60px Edgar Jacob

| Translated to St Albans.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"

| style="text-align: center;" | 1903

| style="text-align: center;" | 1907

| 60px Arthur Lloyd

| Translated from Thetford.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"

| style="text-align: center;" | 1907

| style="text-align: center;" | 1915

| 60px Norman Straton

| Translated from Sodor and Man.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"

| style="text-align: center;" | 1915

| style="text-align: center;" | 1927

| 60px Herbert Wild

|

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"

| style="text-align: center;" | 1927

| style="text-align: center;" | 1941

| 60px Harold Bilbrough

| Translated from Dover.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"

| style="text-align: center;" | 1941

| style="text-align: center;" | 1957

| 60px Noel Hudson

| Previously Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak then assistant bishop of St Albans; translated to Ely.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"

| style="text-align: center;" | 1957

| style="text-align: center;" | 1972

| 60px Hugh Ashdown

|

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"

| style="text-align: center;" | 1973

| style="text-align: center;" | 1980

| 60px Ronald Bowlby

| Translated to Southwark.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"

| style="text-align: center;" | 1981

| style="text-align: center;" | 1997

| 60px Alec Graham

| Translated from Bedford.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"

| style="text-align: center;" | 1997

| style="text-align: center;" | 2014

| 60px Martin Wharton

| Translated from Kingston-upon-Thames.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"

| style="text-align: center;" | 2014

| style="text-align: center;" | 2015

| 60px Frank White

| Acting bishop, as Assistant Bishop of Newcastle

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"

| style="text-align: center;" | 2015

| style="text-align: center;" | 2021

|alt=|80x80px Christine Hardman

| Retired 30 November 2021.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"

| style="text-align: center;" | 2021

| style="text-align: center;" | 2023

| Mark Wroe<br /><small>Bishop of Berwick</small>

| Acting bishop, as Bishop of Berwick. confirmed 3 February 2023.

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Assistant bishops

Among those others who have served the diocese as assistant bishops have been:

  • 19241933 (res.): Cecil Wood, Vicar of Jesmond and former Bishop of Melanesia
  • Anthony Hunter resigned as assistant bishop effective 1 September 1980.

References