Henry Campbell - Episcopal Ministry

Episcopal Ministry

Campbell was ordained to the episcopate as the suffragan Bishop of Willesden in 1940 and translated to be the Bishop of Kensington in 1942. He became a diocesan bishop when he became the Bishop of Guildford in 1949 and later became the Bishop of London in 1956, in which position he also became a Privy Councillor. A modest man, he said of his bishoprics,

"Sometimes you need a man like me – one who is no figure in public life and no scholar – but simply and solely a Father in God who goes round the parishes visiting the chaps: the only thing I am any good at."

He died on 26 December 1970 due to contracting bronchial pneumonia after fracturing his thigh during a power cut.