Edwin Morris

Alfred Edwin Morris (8 May 1894 – 19 October 1971) was an English Anglican bishop, who served as the Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales in the middle of the 20th century.

Early life and education Morris was born on 8 May 1894 in Lye, Worcestershire, England. During the First World War, he served in France with the Royal Army Medical Corps and was attached to the 9th (Scottish) Division.

He studied theology at St David's College Lampeter, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1922. both times by John Owen during services at St David's Cathedral. holding the post until his elevation to the episcopate. He was an examining chaplain to the Bishop of Bangor (1925–1928) and to the Bishop of Llandaff (1931–1934).

In 1945, Morris was elected Bishop of Monmouth, the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Monmouth. He retired in 1967, and died four years later on 19 October 1971 at his house in Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales. His papers are held at the Roderic Bowen Library.

In 1925, Morris married Emily Louisa Davis.

Nonetheless, Fisher (who had by then retired) and Morris were later among those senior clergy who objected to the proposed Anglican-Methodist reunion which was being mooted during the late 1960s and early 1970s. They remained on friendly terms, with Fisher even saying that the new flurries of correspondence between them was "quite like old times". For all his claims of a Tractarian position however, Morris did not, it appears, always endear himself to those clergy who took a more Anglo-Catholic stance. He prohibited extra-eucharistic devotions to the Sacrament (such as Benediction) in his diocese and insisted that permission be sought before the Sacrament was reserved in a tabernacle or aumbry for use in giving Holy Communion to the sick.

The Church in Wales and Nonconformity (1949) The problem of life and death (1950) The Catholicity of the Book of Common Prayer (1952) The Christian use of alcoholic beverages (1960) The Lambeth Quadrilateral and reunion (1969)