Edwin Barnes

Edwin Ronald Barnes SSS ( born February 6, 1935) is a former bishop of the Church of England since 2011 and a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. He was from 1995 to 2001 Bishop of Richborough in the province of Canterbury and is a former President of the Church Union.

Life

Edwin Barnes was educated at Plymouth College and Pembroke College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1961 and served in the Vicariate of St Mark 's, North End, Portsmouth. After this he was Vicar points in Farncombe and Hessle. In 1987 he became rector of St Stephen 's House in Oxford, an Anglo - Catholic theological college. In 1995, he became the first bishop of Richborough, suffragan of the Archbishop of Canterbury. This office was created in order to exercise episcopal functions in those communes of the province of Canterbury Anglican Church, who do not recognize the ordination of women. After his retirement in 2001, Keith Newton, his successor, who later became Roman Catholic Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Conversion to the Catholic Church

Edwin Barnes converted on 21 January 2011 together with his wife Jane, of the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church. On 11 February 2011 he received the diaconate by Crispian Hollis, Bishop of Portsmouth. On March 5, 2011, he was consecrated in the Cathedral of Portsmouth Crispian Hollis by the local bishop to the Catholic priest for by Pope Benedict XVI. Founded Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. On June 21, 2012, he was by Benedict XVI. Honorary Chaplain of His Holiness appointed.