Joseph Fison

Joseph Edward Fison (March 18, 1906 - July 2, 1972) was an Anglican clergyman who served as the 74th Bishop of Salisbury. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and then at The Queen's College, Oxford, where he took second-class honours in Classical Moderations and Greats and a first-class honours in the Final Honour School of Theology while training at Wycliffe Hall (though he could not take the degree of Bachelor of Arts, having already taken it ... more

Joseph Edward Fison (March 18, 1906 - July 2, 1972) was an Anglican clergyman who served as the 74th Bishop of Salisbury. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and then at The Queen's College, Oxford, where he took second-class honours in Classical Moderations and Greats and a first-class honours in the Final Honour School of Theology while training at Wycliffe Hall (though he could not take the degree of Bachelor of Arts, having already taken it for his Classics degree). He graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA in 1929, MA in 1934, and BD 1950 (a postgraduate degree awarded in recognition of his scholarship). From 1930 until 1933 he taught at the English Mission College in Cairo and after being ordained both deacon and priest in 1934 he embarked on a clerical career that was to last nearly 40 years. He started his ordained ministry as Chaplain and Tutor at Wycliffe Hall before serving a curacy at St Aldate's Church, also in Oxford. With the Second World War came service in... less