Hugh George de Willmott Newman

Hugh de Willmott Newman (né Hugh George Newman; 17 January 1905 – 28 February 1979) was a bishop in the independent (non-Roman) Catholic movement. He was known religiously as Mar Georgius I and by the titles Patriarch of Glastonbury, Catholicos of the West, and Sixth British Patriarch.

Newman was first made a bishop (a process known as consecration) in 1944. He is most notable for having subsequently undergone numerous ceremonies of conditional consecration, thereby laying claim to numerous different lines or streams of historic apostolic succession, and also for having shared his own lines or streams of apostolic succession with numerous other bishops by conditionally consecrating them. Over a ten-year period between 1945 and 1955, there were a number of ceremonies in each of which Newman and another bishop would conditionally consecrate each other to give each the other's lines or streams of succession, a practice that is sometimes described as "cross-consecration".

Newman consecrated (conditionally, or otherwise), or shared cross-consecration with, at least 32 bishops. Today, there are hundreds of bishops around the world, perhaps thousands, with a lines of succession deriving through Newman.

Hugh George Newman was born on 17 January 1905 in Forest Gate, London, England. His family background was in the Catholic Apostolic Church (Irvingite). His father was a deacon in that church, and his father a sub-deacon. Hugh George was baptised (christened) at the Catholic Apostolic Church at Mare Street, Hackney, London, England. He was educated at Crawford School, Camberwell, London, and later by private tuition. As a young man, he changed his name by deed poll to "De Willmott Newman", thus reflecting his mother's maiden name. Newman worked as a clerk in solicitors' offices until 1929.

He also continued to educate himself. He took a post with the Christian Herald (a Christian newspaper) and he became a commercial consultant and, in due course, a fellow of the Institute of Commerce. He engaged in charitable work with London's poor and needy, championing the cause of the underdog.

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