Gordon Mursell

The Rt Revd Gordon Mursell MA (Oxon) BD ARCM
Bishop of Stafford
Bishop Mursell in 2010
Diocese	Diocese of Lichfield
In office	2005–2010
Predecessor	Christopher Hill
Successor	Geoff Annas
Other posts	Honorary assistant bishop in Glasgow & Galloway (2010–present) Provost (1999–2002/3) then Dean of Birmingham (2002/3–2005)
Orders
Ordination	1973 (deacon); 1974 (priest)
Consecration	2005
Personal details
Born	(1949-05-04) 4 May 1949 (age 77)
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Philip & Sheena
Spouse	Anne Muir ​ (m. 1989)​
Profession	Author (theology)
Education	Brasenose College, Oxford

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.

Mursell was educated at Ardingly College and Brasenose College, Oxford. Ordained in 1974 he began his career with a curacy at St Mary Walton, Liverpool 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) and then Dean of Birmingham (2002/3–2005) before his ordination to the episcopate as the suffragan Bishop of Stafford - a post he vacated in June 2010. A prolific author, he is also a keen hill walker. He is a member of the Athenaeum Club.

Publications

• The Theology of the Carthusian Life (1988)
• Out of the Deep: prayer as protest (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)

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