Bishop-elect Stock’s arrival in Leeds could herald the end of the turbulent years

The Diocese of Leeds in its annual return recently told the Charity Commission that it was looking forward to the arrival of its new bishop. According to the diocese's trustees, since the now-Archbishop Arthur Roche had left in 2012, Leeds had “not been able to innovate”, but instead had had to focus on putting itself on a viable financial footing, to make sure that outgoings were within reach of income once again. Last year the diocese lost £3 million, but thankfully that included the vast majority of its restructuring costs, including job cuts and retrenchment on expensive building works. The new Bishop of Leeds, Mgr Marcus Stock, will arrive in Yorkshire then with his new diocese’s affairs ably turned round by its senior clergy, and find its people ready to rec