[5] In 1892, he was one of the six priests who founded the Community of the Resurrection at Pusey House, Oxford; Charles Gore served as its first superior.

[11][12][13] Frere was consecrated bishop at Westminster Abbey on 1 November 1923, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury.

[14] He regarded membership of a religious order an obligation taking precedence over others, the bishop's palace became a branch house of the Community.

He was a member of the Anglican delegation to the Malines Conversations in the 1920s, and active in various other ecumenical projects including relations with the Russian Orthodox Church.

[18] In his early writings and addresses he emphasised the importance of spiritual life, and explained some of the liturgical revision which was then in preparation.