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Name: MORRIS, George Frederick Bingley (Rev.)

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Birth Date: 28 Feb 1883 Leith, Edinburgh

Death Date: 20 June 1965 Nairobi

First Date: 1908

Profession: Missionary

Area: Nakuru, Uganda

Married: Margot Clarence b. 23 Nov 1891, d. 1977 Surrey

Book Reference: Hut

School: Queens' Coll Cambridge

General Information:

Became misionary in Uganda. Moved to Morocco and became Archdeacon of North Africa in 1936. Returned to Eng and made a bishop. Living in Nakuru when he died. 1943
Dict. of African Christian Biography George Frederick Bingley Morris was a bishop of the Church of England in South Africa (CESA). Born in Edinburgh he graduated from Cambridge and joined the Africa Inland Mission, of which he later became field director in the Congo and West Nile Uganda. He was then missionary in Morocco and rector of a parish in southwestern England before consecration by Archbishop William Temple as bishop in North Africa. In 1954 he resigned to become bishop of the CESA which, according to Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffery Fisher, put him “outside the fellowship of the Anglican Communion” that in South Africa recognized only the Church of the Province (CPSA). A godly man who never lost his strong evangelicalism, Morris carried on his ministry despite CSPA hostility and the sometimes unguarded utterances of Dr. Fisher whose successor, A.M. Ramsey, insisted on “reordaining” a CESA clergyman. To ensure the continuance of episcopal ministrations in the CESA, Morris in 1959, acting alone, consecrated the Australian Stephen Bradley who carried on the work after Morris died. Australian bishops in 1984 took the imaginative step of consecrating Dudley Foord for service in the CESA, thus taking a step toward healing a division that had lasted since the latter nineteenth century.
Biblical Traning (web) 1884-1965. Anglican bishop. Born in Edinburgh and graduate of Cambridge, where he was active in student evangelistic work, he led a pioneer party of the Africa Inland Mission into the NE Belgian Congo in 1913, later becoming field director of the AIM in the Congo and West Nile Uganda. From 1932 he served the Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society in Morocco, followed by some years of parish work in England before consecration by William Temple* in 1943 as bishop in North Africa. He resigned in 1954 to become rector of Christ Church, Hillbrow, Johannesburg, and the following year accepted election as bishop of the Church of England in South Africa which had long been without episcopal ministrations. His action was condemned by the archbishop of Canterbury, who claimed that he had put himself out of communion with the Church of England (which body was later to insist on reordination of a clergyman ordained by Morris). This did not modify Morris's stand; in 1959, acting alone, he consecrated Stephen Bradley, who continued as bishop in South Africa after Morris's death.

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