Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle
- Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle
The Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle in the Province of Liverpool, known also on occasion as the Northern Province.
The present diocese covers an area of 7,700 km² of the counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, and Durham. 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.
With the gradual abolition of the legal restrictions on the activities of Catholics in England and Wales in the early 19th century, Rome decided to proceed to bridge the gap of the centuries from Queen Elizabeth I by instituting Catholic dioceses on the regular historical pattern. Thus Pope Pius IX issued the Bull "Universalis Ecclesiae" of 29 September 1850 by which thirteen new dioceses which did not formally claim any continuity with the pre-Elizabethan English dioceses were created. The Vicariate Apostolic of the Northern District was duly elevated to diocese status as the Diocese of Hexham.
On 23 May 1861 the diocese became the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle. In the early period from 1850 the diocese was a suffragan of the Metropolitan See of Westminster, but under Pope Pius X, on 28 October 1911, it was assigned to the newly created Province of Liverpool. The Bishop's residence is Bishop's House, East Denton Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne.
The most recent bishop was the Right Reverend Kevin John Dunn, the 12th Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle until his death from pneumonia, aged 57, on 1 March 2008 at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, where he had been treated for a number of weeks. [cite web
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date = 2 March 2008
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List of the Bishops of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle, England and its precursor offices
ee also
*Lists of office-holders
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"Catholic Directory of England and Wales 2004".
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