The Right Reverend Mark Tanner has been named by Downing Street as the next Bishop of Chester, succeeding the Right Reverend Dr Peter Foster who retired last September. Bishop Mark has been Bishop of Berwick since 2016 and is expected to take up his post in the autumn, practicalities permitting. “It will be hard to say goodbye to the North East,” he says. ”But Lindsay and I are excited to return to Chester where I was ordained and both of our children were born.” Read the press release here: htt