Mark Wroe

The Right Reverend Mark Wroe
Bishop of Berwick
Church	Church of England
Diocese	Diocese of Newcastle
In office	2021 to present
Predecessor	Mark Tanner
Other post(s)	Archdeacon of Northumberland (2018–2020)
Orders
Ordination	1996 (deacon) 1997 (priest)
Personal details
Born	1969 (age 54–55)
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglicanism
Alma mater	St Mary's Roman Catholic College, Strawberry Hill Ridley Hall, Cambridge

Mark Wroe (born 1969) is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2021, he has served as Bishop of Berwick. Previously, from 2018 to 2020, he was Archdeacon of Northumberland — both in the Church of England's Diocese of Newcastle.

Biography

Wroe studied theology, religious studies and classics at St Mary's Roman Catholic College Strawberry Hill (SIMMS) from 1989 to 1992 (now St Mary's University, Twickenham): the Degrees were awarded by Surrey University. He trained for ordained ministry at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1996 and as a priest in 1997. He served his title at All Saints, Chilvers Coton with St Mary the Virgin in Nuneaton in Warwickshire between 1996 and 2000. He was then appointed priest-in-charge and subsequently vicar at St Alban's Church, Windy Nook in Tyne and Wear. From 2007 until 2018, he was priest-in-charge of St Barnabas and St Jude, and vicar of Holy Trinity, Jesmond in Newcastle. In 2017, he also became Area Dean of the Central Newcastle Deanery. In 2018, he became acting Archdeacon of Northumberland, being appointed to the position in 2019.

On 20 October 2020, it was announced that Wroe is to be consecrated a bishop in "early 2021", to serve as Bishop of Berwick, the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Newcastle. He was duly consecrated on 5 January 2021, by Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, at York Minster. On Christine Hardman's retirement, 30 November 2021, Wroe became acting diocesan Bishop of Newcastle (as sole suffragan bishop of the diocese).