Edwin Barnes
Edwin Ronald Barnes SSS ( February 6, 1935 - February 6, 2019 ) was a Bishop of the Church of England and a priest of the Roman Catholic Church from 2011 until his death . He was Bishop of Richborough, Canterbury Province, from 1995 to 2001 and was President of the Church Union .
Life
Edwin Barnes studied at Plymouth College and Pembroke College in Oxford. He was ordained in 1961 and served in St Mark's Vicariates in North End, Portsmouth , Farncombe and Hessle . In 1987 he became rector of St. Stephen's House in Oxford, an Anglo-Catholic theological college.
In 1995 he became first Bishop of Richborough, suffragan bishop to the Archbishop of Canterbury. This office was created in order to exercise the episcopal functions in those parishes of the Anglican ecclesiastical province of Canterbury that do not recognize the ordination of women . After his retirement in 2001, Keith Newton succeeded him, who later became a Roman Catholic full professor of the staff ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham .
Conversion to the Catholic Church
Edwin Barnes converted from the Anglican Church to the Roman Catholic Church on January 21, 2011, together with his wife Jane . On February 11, 2011, he was ordained deacon by Crispian Hollis , Bishop of Portsmouth . On March 5, 2011 he received the Roman Catholic priestly ordination for the by Pope Benedict XVI in the Cathedral of Portsmouth by the local Bishop Crispian Hollis . Established Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. On June 21, 2012 he was by Benedict XVI. Appointed chaplain of His Holiness (Monsignor).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ News of death. In: churchtimes.co.uk. Church Times, February 8, 2019, accessed February 8, 2019 .
- ^ Church Union website
- ↑ Pictures of the celebration
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| SURNAME | Barnes, Edwin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barnes, Edwin Ronald (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1935 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 2019 |