Mervyn Charles-Edwards

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| name = Mervyn Charles-Edwards

| title = Bishop of Worcester

| image = Mervyn Charles-Edwards in 1947.jpg

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| caption = Charles-Edwards in 1947

| diocese = Diocese of Worcester

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| term = 1956{{snd}}1970 (ret.)

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| predecessor = William Wilson Cash

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| successor = Robin Woods

| other_post = Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields {{nowrap|(1947–1955)}}

| ordination = 1925 (deacon); 1926 (priest)

| ordained_by = John Kempthorne (Lich.)

| consecration = 1956

| consecrated_by = Geoffrey Fisher (Cantuar)

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1902|4|6|df=y}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1983|10|20|1902|4|6|df=y}}

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| alma_mater = Keble College, Oxford

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Lewis Mervyn Charles-Edwards (called Mervyn; 6 April 1902{{snd}}20 October 1983) was an Anglican bishop in the third quarter of the 20th century.

Born on 6 April 1902, he was educated at Shrewsbury and Keble College, Oxford. After this he studied for ordination at Lichfield Theological College followed by a curacy at Christ Church, Tunstall. He was made deacon on Trinity Sunday (7 June) 1925{{Church Times | title = The Trinity Ordinations | archive = 1925_06_12_715 | issue = 3255 | date = 12 June 1925 | page = 715 | accessed = 12 March 2021 }} and ordained priest on 19 September 1926 — both times by John Kempthorne, Bishop of Lichfield, at Lichfield Cathedral.{{Church Times | title = Ordinations on Sunday last | archive = 1926_09_24_331 | issue = 3322 | date = 24 September 1926 | page = 331 | accessed = 12 March 2021 }} He then held incumbencies at Marchington and Market Drayton before becoming rural dean of Hodnet then Newark. An Honorary Chaplain to the King, he was Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London until his elevation to the episcopate in 1956, where he served for 14 years.

He became Bishop of Worcester when his election was confirmed on 2 January (at St Mary-le-Bow){{Church Times | title = Court of Arches in Session. To Confirm Election of a New Bishop. | archive = 1956_01_06_010 | issue = 4848 | date = 6 January 1956 | page = 10 | accessed = 12 March 2021 }} and he was consecrated a bishop on 6 January 1956, by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral.{{Church Times | title = New bishops consecrated | archive = 1956_01_13_020 | issue = 4849 | date = 13 January 1956 | page = 20 | accessed = 12 March 2021 }} A sub-prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem he died on 20 October 1983. Mervyn fathered two children, David and Jill.