Christopher was born in Hong Kong where his father was the Bishop. Bishop R O Hall ordained Li Tim-Oi a ‘Priest of God’ in China on 25^th January 1944, the first woman priest in the worldwide Anglican Communion.

Christopher was a member of the Church of England General Synod for 19 years. He was also a member of the Synod Standing Committee for ten years, using every opportunity to promote the ordination of women. In a debate in July 1975, when the Synod had accepted the ordination of women in principle, he argued that it was then expedient to proceed, just as his father had demonstrated that ordaining Tim-Oi had been expedient to God.

When Florence Li Tim-Oi died in Toronto in 1992, her sister, Rita Lee-Chui, was in touch with Christopher, wanting not just her sister’s memory to be honoured, but for her ministry to be extended into the future in the lives of other Christian women, women who, like Tim-Oi, needed to be resourced in order to fulfil their vocations.