Report part of speech dividing a northern church (8)
I believe the answer is:
announce
'report' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'part of speech dividing a northern church' is the wordplay.
'part of speech' becomes 'noun' (noun is a kind of part of speech).
'dividing' is an insertion indicator.
'northern' becomes 'n' (abbreviation e.g. N. Ireland).
'church' becomes 'ce' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'a'+'n'+'ce'='ance'
'noun' placed into 'ance' is 'ANNOUNCE'.
(Other definitions for announce that I've seen before include "Disclose" , "Make known, declare" , "Declare publicly" , "Declare, proclaim" , "Declare her weight" .)