Charles Gore

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Charles Gore (1853-1932) was an English theologian and Anglican bishop. When, in 1884, Pusey House was founded at Oxford as a home for Dr Pusey's library and a centre for the propagation of his principles, Gore was appointed as the principal. In 1891 he was chosen to deliver the Bampton lectures and took for his subject the Incarnation. This led to a tense situation which was relieved when in 1893 Gore resigned his principalship and became vicar of Radley, a small parish near Oxford. In 1894 he became a canon of Westminster. Here he gained commanding influence as a preacher and in 1898 was appointed one of the court chaplains. In 1902 he succeeded J. J. S. Perowne as Bishop of Worcester and in 1905 was installed as the first Bishop of Birmingham. In 1911 he succeeded Francis Paget as Bishop of Oxford. He resigned in June 1919 and retired to London. His works include: The Church and the Ministry (1898), Roman Catholic Claims (1898), The Creed of the Christian (1895), The Sermon on the Mount (1896), The Epistle to the Ephesians (1898) and The Body of Christ (1901).