Charles Gore
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The Right Reverend Charles Gore |
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| Bishop of Oxford | |
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Charles Gore
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| Church | Church of England |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Diocese | Oxford |
| Appointed | 17 October 1911 (confirmed) |
| Term ended | 1 July 1919 |
| Predecessor | Francis Paget |
| Successor | Hubert Murray Burge |
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| Ordination | 1878 (priest) |
| Consecration | 23 February 1902 |
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| Born | 22 January 1853 Wimbledon, London, England |
| Died | 17 January 1932 (aged 78) |
| Nationality | English |
| Denomination | Anglicanism |
| Parents | Charles Alexander Gore and Augusta Lavinia Priscilla Gore (née Ponsonby) |
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| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 17 January, 16 January |
| Venerated in | Church of England, Episcopal Church (United States) |
Charles Gore (22 January 1853 – 17 January 1932) was the Bishop of Oxford. He was one of the most influential Anglican theologians of the 19th century, helping reconcile the church to some aspects of biblical criticism and scientific discovery, while remaining Catholic in his interpretation of the faith and sacraments. Also known for his social action, Gore became an Anglican bishop and founded the priestly Community of the Resurrection as well as co-founded the Christian Social Union.
Charles Gore was born into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family as the third son of Charles Alexander Gore, son of the Earl of Arran, and Lady Augusta Lavinia Priscilla (née Ponsonby), a daughter of the fourth Earl of Bessborough. His eldest brother, Philip, became the fourth Earl of Arran, and his brother Spencer was the first winner of the Wimbledon Championships.
Gore's parents sent him to Harrow School, London, then to Balliol College, Oxford, where he supported the trade-union movement.
In 1875, Gore was elected a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and lectured there from 1876 to 1880.
Gore was ordained to the Anglican priesthood in 1878. From 1880 to 1883, he served as vice-principal of Cuddesdon Theological College.
When, in 1884, Pusey House was founded at Oxford as a home for Pusey's library and a centre for the propagation of his principles, Gore was appointed as principal, a position he held until 1893. As Principal of Pusey House, he exercised wide influence over undergraduates and the younger clergy and it was largely under this influence that the Oxford Movement underwent a change which to surviving Tractarians seemed to involve a break with its basic principles. Puseyism had been in the highest degree conservative, basing itself on authority and tradition and repudiating compromise with the modern critical and liberalising spirit. Gore, starting from the same basis of faith and authority, found from experience in dealing with the doubts and difficulties of the younger generation that this uncompromising attitude was untenable and set himself the task of reconciling the principle of authority in religion with that of scientific authority, by attempting to define the boundaries of their respective spheres of influence. To him the divine authority of the Catholic Church was an axiom.
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