Robert Cecil Mortimer (6 December 1902 – 11 September 1976)^[1] was an Anglican bishop in the Church of England.^[2]

Mortimer was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford^[3] and Keble College in the same city. He was made deacon at Michaelmas 1926 (3 October) at his title church (St Mary Redcliffe)^[4] and ordained priest the Michaelmas following (2 October 1927) at St Alban's, Westbury-on-Trym — both times by George Nickson, Bishop of Bristol;^[5] and was a curate at St Mary Redcliffe.^[6] He then became a lecturer in canon law and then the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology^[7] at the University of Oxford before his ordination to the episcopate in 1949 to serve as Bishop of Exeter,^[8][9] which See he held for 24 years. He was consecrated a bishop on St Mark's Day 1949 (25 April), by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.^[10]

Mortimer was also a notable author,^[11] and frequently appeared on BBC Television. He had four children, one of whom was the journalist and author Edward Mortimer.

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