Edwin Barnes

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| term = 1995 to 2001

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| other_post = Priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham (from 2011; RCC)

| previous_post = Principal of St Stephen's House, Oxford (1987–1995; CoE)

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| education = Plymouth College

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Edwin Ronald Barnes (6 February 1935{{snd}}6 February 2019) was a British Roman Catholic priest and a former Church of England bishop. He was the Anglican Bishop of Richborough from 1995 to 2001 and was also formerly the president of the Church Union.Crockfords(London, Church House 1995) {{ISBN|0-7151-8088-6}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchunion.co.uk/|title=The Church Union|website=churchunion.co.uk}}

Anglican ministry

Barnes was educated at Plymouth College and Pembroke College, Oxford.

He was made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1960 (12 June){{Church Times | title = Ordinations | archive = 1960_06_17_015 | issue = 5079 | date = 17 June 1960 | page = 15 | accessed = 24 May 2019 }} and ordained a priest the next Trinity Sunday (28 May 1961), both times by John Phillips, Anglican Bishop of Portsmouth, at Portsmouth Cathedral.{{Church Times | title = List of Trinity Ordinations | archive = 1961_06_02_017 | issue = 5129 | date = 2 June 1961 | page = 17 | accessed = 24 May 2019 }} He began his ministry with a curacy at St Mark's North End, Portsmouth. After this he held incumbencies at Farncombe and Hessle. In 1987 he became Principal of St Stephen's House, Oxford,Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 {{ISBN|978-0-7136-8555-8}} an Anglican theological college.

In 1995, he was chosen to be the first Bishop of Richborough, a provincial episcopal visitor in the Province of Canterbury for traditionalists who reject the ordination of women as priests. He consecrated a bishop at Westminster Abbey on 20 July 1995.{{Church Times | title = picture caption | archive = 1995_07_28_005 | issue = 6911 | date = 28 July 1995 | page = 5 | accessed = 24 May 2019 }} He retired in 2001.{{Cite web|url=http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page2728|archiveurl=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20091208053723/http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page2728|url-status=dead|title=Official announcement|archivedate=8 December 2009}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.gssonline.org.uk/Bishop_Edwin_farewell.htm|title=Bp Edwin enters|website=gssonline.org.uk|access-date=6 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603235310/http://www.gssonline.org.uk/Bishop_Edwin_farewell.htm|archive-date=3 June 2011|url-status=dead}}

Reception into the Catholic Church

In October 2010, Barnes was interviewed by The Tablet magazine on the possibility of joining the proposed personal ordinariate in the Roman Catholic Church for former Anglicans (which was established as the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in January 2011). He said that he wanted to join "because the Anglican Church is no longer the one holy and apostolic Church it says it is."[http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=101747 Flying bishops: We’re not going yet] On 6 January 2011, Barnes announced that he intended being received into the Catholic Church.{{cite web|last=Barnes|first=Edwain|title=Amazing (G)Race|url=http://bishedwins.blogspot.com/2011/01/amazing-grace.html|work=Ancient Richborough|date=6 January 2011 |accessdate=7 January 2011}}

On 21 January 2011 he and his wife, Jane, were received into the Catholic Church at the Church of Our Lady & St Joseph, Lymington by Monsignor Peter Ryan, himself a former Anglican.{{Cite web|url=http://bishedwins.blogspot.com/2011/01/thanks.html|title=Ancient Richborough: Thanks!|date=21 January 2011}} He was ordained to the diaconate on 11 February 2011 in the domestic chapel at Bishop's House, Portsmouth by Crispian Hollis, Roman Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth. He was ordained to the priesthood on 5 March 2011 by the same bishop in the Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Portsmouth, for the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. In June 2012 he was elevated to the rank of monsignor as a Chaplain of His Holiness.

Illness and death

Barnes died on 6 February 2019 on his 84th birthday, following a short illness.February edition of the Ordinariate newsletter.

References

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