Background
He was born in 1853 in Wimbledon, London, England. Charles Gore was born into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family as the third son of Charles Alexander Gore, son of the Earl of Arran, and Lady Augusta Lavinia Priscilla (née Ponsonby), a daughter of the fourth Earl of Bessborough.
Education
He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, As fellow of Trinity College (1875) and first principal of Pusey House (1884–93) he probably had more effect on Oxford University religious life than anyone save Newman.
Career
In 1875, Gore was elected a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and lectured there from 1876 to 1880. Gore was ordained to the Anglican priesthood in 1878. From 1880 to 1883, he served as vice-principal of Cuddesdon Theological College. When, in 1884, Pusey House was founded at Oxford as a home for Pusey's library and a centre for the propagation of his principles, Gore was appointed as principal, a position he held until 1893. He founded the Community of the Resurrection (1892) for celibate priests, established at Mirfield 1898, of which he was superior until 1901.
In 1889, he published two works, the larger of which, The Church and the Ministry, is a learned vindication of the principle of apostolic succession in the episcopate against the Presbyterians and other Reformed church bodies, while the second, Roman Catholic Claims, is a defence, in more popular form, of Anglicanism and Anglican ordinations and sacraments against the criticisms of Roman Catholic authorities.
In 1891 Gore was chosen to deliver the Bampton lectures, and he took for his subject the "Incarnation of Christ. " In these published lectures, Gore developed the theology of Lux Mundi, attempting to explain how Christ, though incarnate God, could err – e. g. in his citations from the Old Testament. The orthodox explanation had been based on the religious principle of accommodation. The Bampton Lectures led to a tense situation, which Gore relieved in 1893 by resigning his principalship of Pusey House and accepting the position of vicar of Radley parish near Oxford.
In 1894 Gore became a canon of Westminster Abbey. Here he gained commanding influence as a preacher and in 1898 was appointed one of the court chaplains. In July 1901 he was appointed a Chaplain-in-Ordinary to King Edward VII, though he resigned as such on elevation as bishop in January 1902. In November 1901 Gore was nominated to succeed J. J. S. Perowne as Bishop of Worcester.
Gore resigned in June 1919 and retired to London.
Religion
Gore was an Anglo-catholic of liberal views and strong social conscience.