He served in curacies in East Finchley and Chelsea until he was appointed, during the First World War, a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces in January, 1917.
[b] He was appointed Bishop of Coventry, and served the diocese well especially during the terrible bombing of the city during World War II.
[12] Haigh was, by 1942, highly regarded and was considered for the vacancies of Archbishop of Canterbury in 1942, when Cosmo Lang retired, and in 1944 following the sudden death of William Temple.
[17] He resigned his post in 1952 and was honoured by Winchester College[18] before retiring to North Wales where he became involved in several rural campaigns.
[20] William Wand, who succeeded Fisher as Bishop of London, regarded Haigh as 'a good man and a great prelate'.