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Oct 2022
The Bishop of Ripon is to leave her post to take up a new role next year.
The Right Rev Dr Helen-Ann Hartley has been in Ripon since 2017, but has now been announced by Downing Street as Bishop of Newcastle, with her installation set to take place in early 2023.
The appointment was approved by Her Late Majesty the Queen this year following the retirement of the last Bishop of Newcastle, the Rt Rev Christine Hardman. Since then, the Bishop of Berwick, the Rt Rev Mark Wroe, has been acting diocesan Bishop of Newcastle.
Bishop Helen-Ann, who grew up in the North-East, said:
Bishop Helen-Ann was born in Edinburgh and grew up in the Scottish borders, where her father was a Church of Scotland minister.
At a young age, she and her family moved to Sunderland, where she was educated, while her father became a priest in the Church of England.
Her own ordination was in 2005 as deacon of the Diocese of Oxford, becoming a priest a year later.
A relocation to New Zealand in 2010 was followed three years later by her election as Bishop of Waikato on the North Island.
The Archbishop of York, the Most Reverend Stephen Cottrell, added:
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