Gordon Mursell

Who is Gordon Mursell?

Alfred Gordon Mursell is a former suffragan 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, Provost and then Dean of Birmingham 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.