Fond of dressing up as a mermaid, one Cornish priest excommunicated his cat for mousing on a Sunday. A certain Anglican bishop who found himself late for a service simply commandeered a navy helicopter. Then there was "Mad Jack," who swapped his surplice for leopard skin and had himself carried around in a coffin, and another clergyman who set out to eat one of each of God's creatures. Yet despite their peccadillos, each saw the church as his calling, and these 45 witty portraits from fellow reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie reveal the Anglican clergy in all its colorful madness.