Christopher Morgan (bishop)
Christopher Heudebourck Morgan is a retired bishop in the Church of England, the area Bishop of Colchester from 2002 until his retirement in 2013.
Morgan was educated at the City of Bath Boys School and Lancaster University. He is a Master of Theology, Bachelor of Arts and has a Diploma in Theology. He studied for ordination at Kelham Theological College.
Morgan was made a deacon at Michaelmas 1973 and ordained a priest the Michaelmas following, both times by Ronald Williams, Bishop of Leicester, at Leicester Cathedral. He was a curate at St James the Great, Birstall and then a chaplain in Brussels, Vicar of St George's Redditch and then Sonning. From 1985 to 1996 he was the Diocese of Gloucester's Diocesan Officer for Ministry and then a residentiary canon at Gloucester Cathedral until his ordination to the episcopate.
He was ordained a bishop on 6 December 2011 by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey and installed at Chelmsford Cathedral on 3 February 2002.
A keen hill walker, he is married to Anne and has two children.Styles
