Fred Morris (bishop)

George Frederick Bingley Morris (1884–1965)[1] was an Anglican Bishop of North Africa[2] in the mid 20th century.[3]

Morris, circa 1943

Morris was born in Edinburgh and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge and ordained in 1911.[4] After a curacy at St Paul Portman Square he became a missionary in Uganda. Moving to Morocco he became Archdeacon of North Africa in 1936. Returning to England he was Rector of Illogan until his elevation to the episcopate in 1943.[5]

In 1954, he resigned as Bishop of North Africa and become the first bishop of Church of England in South Africa in 1955:[2][6] CESA was not part of the Church of England, despite its name. Geoffrey Fisher, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, described this action as putting himself "outside the fellowship of the Anglican Communion".[2] In 1959, he consecrated Stephen Bradley as an assistant bishop to eventually act as his successor: it is highly unusual for a single bishop to undertake a consecration alone.[7]

References
  1. NPG details
  2. "Morris, George Frederick Bingley". dacb.org. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  3. National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory London, OUP, 1948
  5. Ecclesiastical News. Bishops consecrated in St Paul's The Times (London, England), Friday, 4 June 1943; pg. 7; Issue 49563
  6. Ward, Kevin (2006). A history of global Anglicanism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 286. ISBN 9780521008662.
  7. Buchanan, Colin O. (2015). "Mowll, Howard W. K. (1890-1958)". Historical dictionary of Anglicanism (Second ed.). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 423. ISBN 9781442250161.


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