James Herbert Lloyd Morrell (called Lloyd; 12 August 190728 March 1996) was the seventh Bishop of Lewes.

Biography

Morrell was educated at Dulwich College and

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. He was deaconed on Trinity Sunday 1931 (31 May) and priested the following Trinity Sunday (22 May 1932) — both times by

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, Bishop of London, at

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. He began his career with curacies at St Alphage, Hendon and St Michael & All Angels, Brighton after which he was chaplain to George Bell, Bishop of Chichester and then a

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for ''The Church of England Moral Welfare Council''. From here he went to be Vicar of Roffey'' Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 and then

Archdeacon of Lewes The Archdeacon of Hastings is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Chichester. The Diocese of Chichester almost exactly covers the counties of East and West Sussex and the City of Brighton and Hove, stretching for ...

before appointment to the Episcopate in 1959, serving eventually for eighteen years. He was consecrated a bishop on 30 November 1959, by Geoffrey Fisher,

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, at Westminster Abbey.

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1907 births People educated at Dulwich College Alumni of King's College London Fellows of King's College London Bishops of Lewes Archdeacons of Lewes 1996 deaths 20th-century Church of England bishops {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub