Kenneth Albert Newing OSB (29 August 192315 May 2019) was the

Anglican Bishop of Plymouth The Anglican Bishop of Plymouth is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the city of Plymouth in Devon; the See was erect ...

from 1982 to 1988. Newing was educated at

Dover Grammar School for Boys Dover Grammar School for Boys (DGSB) is a selective secondary school located in Dover, United Kingdom, whose origins can be traced back to the Education Act 1902 (the 'Balfour Act'). Originally founded as the Dover County School for Boys and G ...

and

Selwyn College, Cambridge Selwyn College, Cambridge is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1882 by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of George Selwyn (bishop of Lichfield), Georg ...

. After a period of study at The College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, he was made a deacon at

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1955 (2 October), by Robert Mortimer,

Bishop of Exeter The Bishop of Exeter is the Ordinary (officer), ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury. The current bishop is Mike Harrison (bishop), Mike Harrison, since 2024. From the first bishop until the sixteent ...

, at

Exeter Cathedral Exeter Cathedral, properly known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, is an Anglican cathedral, and the seat of the Bishop of Exeter, in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Exeter, Devon, in South West England. The presen ...

, ordained priest in 1956, and began his career with a

curacy A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' () of souls of a parish. In this sense, ''curate'' means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy who are ass ...

Plymstock Plymstock is a commuter suburb of Plymouth and former civil parish in the English county of Devon. Geography Situated on the east bank of the River Plym, Plymstock is geographically and historically part of the South Hams. It comprises the ...

followed by a long period as Rector of

Plympton St Maurice Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down river to Ply ...

.''Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 (100th edition)'', Church House Publishing (). 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 Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie, (2 October 1921 – 11 July 2000) was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991, having previously been Bishop of St Albans. He travelled the world widely ...

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, at

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. On resigning from the

episcopate A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of dioceses. The role ...

he joined the Anglican Benedictine community at

Elmore Abbey Nashdom, also known as Nashdom Abbey, is a former English country house, country house and former Anglican Benedictine abbey in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England. Designed in Neo-Georgian style (Great Britain), Neo-Geor ...

(now based in Salisbury). Newing died in May 2019 at the age of 95.The Catholic Church of the Holy Angels: Latest Mass Information
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1923 births 2019 deaths Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge Anglican bishops of Plymouth Archdeacons of Plymouth People educated at Dover Grammar School for Boys People from Plymstock 20th-century Church of England bishops Alumni of the College of the Resurrection {{Anglican-bishop-stub