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{{Infobox Christian leader | honorific-prefix = The Rt Revd | name = Gordon Mursell | honorific-suffix = MA(Oxon) BD ARCM [[Hon.Doctor of Divinity [DD]] | image = Martin Warner (4666962719) (Gordon Mursell cropped).jpg | caption = Bishop Mursell in 2010 | title = Bishop of Stafford | diocese = Diocese of Lichfield | term = 2005–2010 | predecessor = Christopher Hill | successor = Geoff Annas | other_post = Honorary assistant bishop in Glasgow & Galloway (2010–present)
Provost (1999–2002/3) then Dean of Birmingham (2002/3–2005) | ordination = 1973 (deacon); 1974 (priest) | consecration = 2005 | birth_date = (1949-05-04) 4 May 1949 (age 75) | religion = Anglican | parents = Philip & Sheena | spouse =

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| occupation = | profession = Author (theology) | alma_mater = Brasenose College, Oxford }} Alfred Gordon Mursell (born 4 May 1949) is a retired British Anglican bishop and author. From 2005 to 2010, he was the Bishop of Stafford in the Church of England. [1]

Mursell was educated at Ardingly College and Brasenose College, Oxford. [2] Ordained in 1974 he began his career with a curacy at St Mary Walton, Liverpool [3] and was then successively Vicar of St John's East Dulwich, a tutor at Wells Theological College, Team Rector of Stafford (1991–1999), Provost (1999–2002/3) [lower-alpha 1] and then Dean of Birmingham (2002/3–2005) [6] before his ordination to the episcopate [7] as the suffragan Bishop of Stafford - a post he vacated in June 2010. A prolific author, [8] he is also a keen hill walker. [2] He is a member of the Athenaeum Club.

Publications

The Bonds of Love: St Peter Damian's Theology of the Spiritual Life (2021)

Styles

Notes

  1. ↑ Mursell is described as Provost on 22 February 2002 [4] and as Dean on 31 October 2003. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Crockfords Online - accessed 9 March 2008, 19:37
  2. 1 2 ‘MURSELL, Rt Rev. (Alfred) Gordon’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 , accessed 8 July 2012
  3. ↑ Crockford’s clerical directory 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN   0-19-200008-X
  4. ↑ "Classified" . Church Times . No. 7252. 22 February 2002. p. 21. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 31 December 2014– via UK Press Online archives.
  5. ↑ "Features" . Church Times . No. 7339. 31 October 2002. p. 14. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 31 December 2014– via UK Press Online archives.
  6. ↑ BBC News Reporting his appointment to the Suffragan See of Stafford
  7. ↑ Official notification Archived 2007-11-10 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ His works include Out of the Deep: prayer as protest,(1989) The Wisdom of the Anglo-Saxons (1997) and English Spirituality (2001)
Church of England titles
Preceded by Provost, then Dean of Birmingham
1999–2005		Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Stafford
2005–2010		Succeeded by


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