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Jan 2023
Bishop of Ripon formally departs — with no successor imminent
The Rt Revd Dr Helen-Ann Hartley has formally left her role as Bishop of Ripon after five years to become Bishop of Newcastle.
At a special evensong service at Ripon Cathedral, Bishop Helen-Ann removed her diocesan cope, stole and mitre and placed them on the altar in a symbolic act of standing down.
Paying tribute to to the people of the Ripon episcopal area, she said:
With Bishop of Leeds Nick Baines
She praised Ripon Runners, of which she was a member, for giving her mental and physical challenges, such as once having to define "evil" while running up a hill to Ripon's Morrisons supermarket.
Bishop of Leeds Nick Baines said Bishop Helen-Ann had been a blessing to the diocese in the five years since she arrived from New Zealand, accompanied at that service by a group of Maori elders.
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Bishop Nick presenting her with a framed aerial view of Fountains Abbey, near Ripon, as a parting gift. He said
The bishop's final sermon in Ripon.
The appointment of a bishop is a lengthy and opaque process that requires the consent of Downing Street.
The Stray Ferret asked the Anglican Diocese of Leeds when a new Bishop of Ripon was likely to be appointed.
A spokesman said:
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