Christopher Pepys

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George Christopher Pepys Cutts (29 June 1914 – 4 April 1974) was, from 1964 to 1974, the fifth Bishop of Buckingham in the Church of England.

Pepys was educated at Winchester College and Oriel College, Oxford^[1] and studied for ordination at Ripon College Cuddesdon before a curacy at St John the Divine's Kennington.^[2] After wartime service in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) he was successively Rector of Hartfield, Sussex,^[3] Vicar of St Mark's Portsea and, before his ordination to the episcopate, Rural Dean of Liverpool.^[4] He died in post in 1974. He was survived by his wife, Elizabeth (d. 2009), who later married another Church of England Bishop, Michael Mann.^[5]

References

Church of England titles
Preceded by Gordon David Savage	Bishop of Buckingham 1964 – 1974	Succeeded by Simon Hedley Burrows

v t e Bishops of Buckingham

Edward Shaw Philip Eliot Robert Hay Gordon Savage Christopher Pepys Simon Burrows Colin Bennetts Mike Hill Alan Wilson

Persondata
Name	Pepys, George Christopher Cutts
Alternative names
Short description	British bishop
Date of birth	29 June 1914
Place of birth
Date of death	4 April 1974
Place of death

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