Charles Gore, Bishop & Founder
17 January -- Commemoration
If celebrated as a Lesser Festival,
Common of Religious, page 494
Born in 1835, Gore became one of the most influential of
Anglican theologians. He helped reconcile the Church to
some aspects of biblical criticism and scientific discovery,
yet was Catholic in his interpretation of the faith and
sacraments. He was also concerned to bring Catholic
principles to bear on social problems. As an Oxford don and
then as a Canon of
Westminster,
he was renowned for his preaching. In the 1890s, he was the
founder -- and first leader -- of the Community of the
Resurrection, which in later years settled at Mirfield in
Yorkshire. From 1902, he was successively bishop of
Worcester, Birmingham and
Oxford. He was
much mourned at his death on this day in 1932.