Robert Mortimer (bishop)

Robert Cecil Mortimer (6 December 1902 – 11 September 1976)[1] was an Anglican bishop in the Church of England.

[2] Mortimer was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford[3] and Keble College in the same city.

[6] He then became a lecturer in canon law and then the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology[7] at the University of Oxford before his ordination to the episcopate in 1949 to serve as Bishop of Exeter,[8][9] which See he held for 24 years.

He was consecrated a bishop on St Mark's Day 1949 (25 April), by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.

[10] As the Bishop of Exeter, Mortimer set up an exorcism commission, which published its report in 1973.