George Frederick Bingley Morris (1884–1965)NPG details was an Anglican Bishop of North Africa in the mid 20th century.National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
Morris was born in Edinburgh and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge and ordained in 1911.Crockford's Clerical Directory London, OUP, 1948 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.Ecclesiastical News. Bishops consecrated in St Paul's The Times (London, England), Friday, 4 June 1943; pg. 7; Issue 49563
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". In 1959, he consecrated Stephen Bradley as an assistant bishop, who would eventually serve as his successor; it is highly unusual for a single bishop to undertake a consecration alone.
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