Kenneth Newing

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{{Infobox Christian leader

| honorific-prefix = {{small|The Rt Revd Dom}}

| name = Kenneth Newing

| honorific-suffix = {{small|MA(Cantab) OSB}}

| title = 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 = {{birth date|1923|8|29|df=y}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|2019|5|15|1923|8|29|df=y}}

| religion = Anglican

| residence = Salisbury Priory, Wiltshire

| parents = Albert & Nellie

| occupation =

| profession = Monk

| alma_mater = Selwyn College, Cambridge

}}

Kenneth Albert Newing OSB (29 August 1923{{snd}}15 May 2019) was the Anglican Bishop of Plymouth from 1982The Times, Wednesday, Nov 25, 1981; pg. 14; Issue 61091; col E Church news New Suffragan Bishop of Plymouth to 1988.

Newing was educated at Dover Grammar School for BoysWho's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 {{ISBN|978-0-7136-8555-8}} 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,{{Church Times | title = Michaelmas Ordinations | archive = 1955_10_07_012 | issue = 4 | date = 7 October 1955 | page = 12 | accessed = 13 June 2019 }} ordained priest in 1956, and began his career with a curacy at Plymstock followed by a long period as Rector of Plympton St Maurice.Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing ({{ISBN|978-0-7151-1030-0}}). 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.{{Church Times | title = picture caption | archive = 1982_02_05_001 | issue = 6208 | date = 5 February 1982 | page = 1 | accessed = 13 June 2019 }} 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.[https://www.holy-angels.co.uk/latest-mass-information The Catholic Church of the Holy Angels: Latest Mass Information]