Morris Gelsthorpe

(Alfred) Morris Gelsthorpe, DSO, DD (26 February 1892 – 22 August 1968) was the first Bishop in the Sudan.

He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Hatfield College. He served in the Artists Rifles during World War One. He was ordained in 1920 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Gabriel’s, Sunderland. He became a CMS Missionary in 1923. He was Principal of the Staff Training College at Awka from 1926 to 1933 and Assistant Bishop to the Bishop on the Niger from 1933 to 1938 and Assistant Bishop to the Bishop of Egypt from 1938 to 1945. He was Bishop in the Sudan from 1945 to 1952; and Rector of Bingham, Nottinghamshire from 1952 to 1963.