About Fred Morris
Lived 1884 – 1965 (aged 80–81). Fred Morris was an anglican priest.
George Frederick Bingley Morris (1884–1965) was an Anglican Bishop of North Africa in the mid 20th century.
Morris was born in Edinburgh and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge and ordained in 1911. After a curacy at St Paul Portman Square, he became a missionary in Uganda. Moving to Morocco, he became Archdeacon of North Africa in 1936. Returning to England, he was Rector of Illogan until his elevation to the episcopate in 1943.
In 1954, he resigned as Bishop of North Africa and became the first bishop of the Church of England in South Africa in 1955: CESA was not part of the Church of England, despite its name. Geoffrey Fisher, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, described this action as putting himself "outside the fellowship of the Anglican Communion".
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Who was Fred Morris?
Anglican bishop
When was Fred Morris born?
Fred Morris was born in 1884.
When did Fred Morris die?
Fred Morris died in 1965.
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Fred Morris was an anglican priest.
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