THE KING has been pleased to order a Congé d'Elire to pass the Great Seal of the Realm empowering the College of Canons of the Cathedral Church in Newcastle, to elect a Bishop of the See of Newcastle, the same being void by the resignation of the Right Reverend Christine Elizabeth Hardman, B.Sc., lately Bishop thereof; and His Majesty has been pleased to recommend to the said College of Canons the Right Reverend Helen-Ann Macleod Hartley, M.Theol., D.Phil., Bishop Suffragan of Ripon, to be by them elected Bishop of the said See.