Arthur Morris

Who was Arthur Morris?

Arthur Harold Morris was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.

Morris was educated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and ordained in 1923. He held incumbencies at Great Clacton and St Mark’s Hamilton Terrace, was then Rural Dean of St Marylebone before wartime service as a chaplain with the RAF. When the war ended he became Archdeacon of Halifax before his ordination to the episcopate as the third Bishop of Pontefract with the additional office of Archdeacon of Pontefract. He was translated to be the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in 1954. He retired in 1965.