Robert Mortimer

Robert Cecil Mortimer (6 December 1902 – 11 September 1976)[1] was an Anglican bishop in the Church of England.[2]

Mortimer was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford[3] and Keble College in the same city. He was made deacon at Michaelmas 1926 (3 October) at his title church (St Mary Redcliffe)[4] and ordained priest the Michaelmas following (2 October 1927) at St Alban's, Westbury-on-Trym — both times by George Nickson, Bishop of Bristol;[5] and was a curate at St Marys Redcliffe.[6] He then became a lecturer in canon law and then the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology[7] at the University of Oxford before his ordination to the episcopate in 1949 to serve as Bishop of Exeter,[8][9] which See he held for 24 years. He was consecrated a bishop on St Mark's Day 1949 (25 April), by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.[10]

Mortimer was also a notable author,[11] and frequently appeared on BBC Television. He had four children, one of whom is the journalist and author Edward Mortimer.

References

1. "Obituary: The Right Rev Robert Mortimer Former Bishop of Exeter", The Times, 13 September 1976, p16.)
2. "New Bishop of Exeter", The Times, 11 February 1949, p4.
3. “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
4. "Ordinations". Church Times (#3324). 8 October 1926. p. 393. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 10 November 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
5. "Ordinations". Church Times (#3376). 7 October 1927. p. 393. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 10 November 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
6. Church Web Site
7. "University News", The Times, 11 February 1944, p7.
8. National Archives
9. Genuki
10. "Day of consecrations / picture caption". Church Times (#4499). 29 April 1949. p. 265. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 10 November 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
11. Among other books he wrote Gambling (1933), Origins of Private Penance (1939), The Elements of Moral Theology (1947), Marriage in Church and State (1947), Christian Ethics (1950), The Duties of a Churchman (1951) and Western Canon Law (1953).