| Type: | Priest |
| Honorific Prefix: | The Very Reverend |
| Christopher Campling | |
| Dean of Ripon | |
| Church: | Church of England |
| Diocese: | Diocese of Ripon |
| Term: | 1984 – 1995 |
| Predecessor: | Edwin Le Grice |
| Successor: | John Methuen |
| Other Post: | Archdeacon of Dudley (1976–1984) |
| Ordination: | 1952 |
| Birth Name: | Christopher Russell Campling |
| Birth Date: | 4 July 1925 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Religion: | Anglicism |
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| Education: | Lancing College |
| Alma Mater: | St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
Christopher Russell Campling (4 July 1925 – 9 December 2020) was a British Anglican priest who was the Dean of Ripon.[1]
Campling was born on 4 July 1925 and educated at Lancing College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[2]
Ordained in 1952 he began his career with a curacy in Basingstoke[3] after which he was a Minor Canon at Ely Cathedral.[4] He was then appointed Chaplain of his old school. Later Vicar then Rural Dean of Pershore, his next appointment was as Archdeacon of Dudley in 1975 — a post he held jointly with his role as director of education for the Anglican Diocese of Worcester and priest-in-charge of St Augustine's Church, Dodderhill, Droitwich. Then, in 1984, he was appointed Dean of Ripon.[5] After 11 years as head of Ripon Cathedral, he retired from full-time ministry.
Campling belonged to the liberal wing of the Church of England. He was a supporter of ecumenism, the ordination of women, the remarriage of divorcees in church.[6]
An eminent author,[7] he retired to Worthing[8] where he wrote his memoir, I Was Glad. He continued to preach and lecture occasionally in retirement.[9]
He died on 9 December 2020 at the age of 95.[10]