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) [ 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 Theology of the Carthusian Life (1988)
Out of the Deep (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
^ Mursell is described as Provost on 22 February 2002[ 4] and as Dean on 31 October 2003.[ 5]
References
^ Crockfords Online - accessed 9 March 2008, 19:37
^ a b ‘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
^ Crockford’s clerical directory 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
^ "Classified" . Church Times . No. 7252. 22 February 2002. p. 21. ISSN 0009-658X . Retrieved 31 December 2014 – via UK Press Online archives.
^ "Features" . Church Times . No. 7339. 31 October 2002. p. 14. ISSN 0009-658X . Retrieved 31 December 2014 – via UK Press Online archives.
^ BBC News Reporting his appointment to the Suffragan See of Stafford
^ Official notification Archived 2007-11-10 at the Wayback Machine
^ His works include Out of the Deep: prayer as protest,(1989) The Wisdom of the Anglo-Saxons (1997) and English Spirituality (2001)
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