Education
Barnes was educated at Plymouth College and Pembroke College, Oxford.
Barnes was educated at Plymouth College and Pembroke College, Oxford.
He was the Bishop of Richborough from 1995 to 2002 and was also formerly the president of the Church Union. He was ordained in 1961 he began his ministry with a curacy at Street Mark"s North End, Portsmouth. After this he held incumbencies at Farncombe and Hessle.
In 1987 he became Principal of Street Stephen"s House, Oxford, an Anglican theological college.
In 1995 he was chosen to be the first Bishop of Richborough, a provincial episcopal visitor in the Province of Canterbury. He retired in 2001. He was ordained to the diaconate on 11 February 2011 in the domestic chapel at Bishop"s House, Portsmouth by the Bishop of Portsmouth, Crispian Hollis.
He was ordained to the priesthood on 5 March 2011 by the same bishop in the Cathedral of Street John the Evangelist, Portsmouth for the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. In June 2012 he was elevated to the rank of monsignor as a Chaplain of His Holiness.