Later he said: "Let us learn the lessons of the necessary confrontation between the gospel of life and the power of darkness. We are going to need those lessons in the days to come.

"‘Like a roaring lion your adversary, the Devil, prowls around, looking for someone to devour; resist him, steadfast in your faith. . . and after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace will himself restore, support, strengthen and establish you.’"

He then went on to say that humility would be required to defeat the issues facing the world.

He said: "Humility is one of those Christian virtues which the ancient world simply could not understand. It stands along with charity, patience and chastity, being formed by and in turn forming those other three. And in our dangerous and contested world, where we are called to be ministers of the humble suffering love of Jesus Christ, this humility is not simply a necessary adjunct to that ministry, an adornment on the top; it is the powerful weapon which overcomes the world, in the way that resurrection is the powerful weapon that challenges the tyrant’s last weapon of death.

In his Easter Day service the Bishop talked about our culture is at the moment.

He said: "Among the many crises we face in our world is a crisis of beauty, and the fact that we can talk at length about everything else – money, the environment, sex, political corruption, not to mention Newcastle United – and only bring in beauty as an afterthought tells its own story.

"Perhaps it’s time to turn things round the other way, and start with the question of beauty and work in from there."