Gordon Mursell

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)^[a] and then Dean of Birmingham (2002/3–2005) ^[4] before his ordination to the episcopate^[5] as the suffragan Bishop of Stafford - a post he vacated in June 2010. A prolific author, he is also a keen hill walker.^[2] He is a member of the Athenaeum Club.

Publications

• The Theology of the Carthusian Life (1988)
• Out of the Deep: prayer as protest (1989)
• The Wisdom of the Anglo-Saxons (1996)
• English Spirituality (2001)
• The Bonds of Love: St Peter Damian's Theology of the Spiritual Life (2021)

Styles

• Gordon Mursell (1949–1974)
• The Revd Gordon Mursell (1974–1999)
• The Very Revd Gordon Mursell (1999–2005)
• The Rt Revd Gordon Mursell (2005–present)

Notes

1. ^ Mursell is described as Provost on 22 February 2002^[6] and as Dean on 31 October 2003.^[7]

References

1. ^ Crockfords Online - accessed 9 March 2008, 19:37
2. ^ ‘MURSELL, Rt Rev. (Alfred) Gordon’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 [1], accessed 8 July 2012
3. ^ Crockford’s clerical directory 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
4. ^ BBC News Reporting his appointment to the Suffragan See of Stafford
5. ^ Official notification Archived 2007-11-10 at the Wayback Machine
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