Alfred Gordon Mursell is a former suffragan Bishop of Stafford

Bishop of Stafford

The Bishop of Stafford is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Stafford, the county town of Staffordshire. The Bishop of Stafford has particular episcopal oversight of the...

 in the Church of England

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Mursell was born on 4 May 1949 and educated at Ardingly College

Ardingly College

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 and Brasenose College, Oxford

Brasenose College, Oxford

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. Ordained in 1974 he began his career with a curacy

Curate

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 at St Mary Walton, Liverpool

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  and was then successively Vicar

Vicar

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 of St John's East Dulwich, a tutor

Tutor

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 at Wells Theological College

Wells Theological College

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, Team Rector

Rector

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 of Stafford

Stafford

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 (1991–1999), Provost (1999–2000) and then Dean of Birmingham Cathedral

Birmingham Cathedral

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 (2000–2005) before his ordination to the episcopate

Suffragan bishop

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 as the suffragan Bishop of Stafford

Bishop of Stafford

The Bishop of Stafford is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Stafford, the county town of Staffordshire. The Bishop of Stafford has particular episcopal oversight of the...

- a post he vacated in June 2010. A prolific author, he is also a keen hill walker.

Publications

• The Theology of the Carthusian Life (1988)
• Out of the Deep (1989)
• The Wisdom of the Anglo-Saxons (1996)
• English Spirituality (2001)

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)