Kenneth Newing Explained

Kenneth Newing
Bishop of Plymouth
Diocese:Diocese of Exeter
Term:1982–1988
Predecessor:Richard Cartwright
Successor:Richard Hawkins
Other Post:Archdeacon of Plymouth (1978–1982)
Ordination:1955 (deacon); 1956 (priest)
Consecration:1982
Birth Date:29 August 1923
Religion:Anglican
Residence:Salisbury Priory, Wiltshire
Parents:Albert & Nellie
Profession:Monk
Alma Mater:Selwyn College, Cambridge

Kenneth Albert Newing OSB (29 August 192315 May 2019) was the Anglican Bishop of Plymouth from 1982[1] to 1988.

Newing was educated at Dover Grammar School for Boys[2] and Selwyn College, Cambridge. After a period of study at The College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, he was made a deacon at Michaelmas 1955 (2 October), by Robert Mortimer, Bishop of Exeter, at Exeter Cathedral, ordained priest in 1956, and began his career with a curacy at Plymstock followed by a long period as Rector of Plympton St Maurice.[3] In 1978 he became the Archdeacon of Plymouth and four years later Bishop suffragan of Plymouth. He was consecrated a bishop on 2 February 1982, by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey. On resigning from the episcopate he joined the Anglican Benedictine community at Elmore Abbey (now based in Salisbury). Newing died in May 2019 at the age of 95.[4]

References

  1. [The Times]
  2. [Who's Who]
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing .
  4. https://www.holy-angels.co.uk/latest-mass-information The Catholic Church of the Holy Angels: Latest Mass Information