George Cardell Briggs CMG OGS^[1][2] (6 September 1910 – 15 March 2004)^[3] was the first Bishop of The Seychelles.^[4]

Born in Warrington, Briggs was educated at Worksop College and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After studying at Cuddesdon College he was ordained deacon in 1934 and priest in 1935.^[5] He was a curate of St Alban's, Stockport until 1937^[6] when he became a missionary priest in the Diocese of Masabi, Tanzania. In 1939 he became a member of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd.^[5] He was the Archdeacon of Newala from 1955 to 1964 and then Rector of St Alban's Dar-es-Salaam until 1969^[7] when he became Warden of St Cyprian's Theological College, Masasi, his last post before ordination to the episcopate.

He became Bishop of the Seychelles in 1973.^[8]

He was created a CMG in 1979.^[9]

He resigned his See in 1979 and returned to England as Assistant Bishop of Derby; he went to Mauritius the next year.^[10] He was afterwards an assistant priest in Mwatara, Tanzania, and an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Worcester until 1990.^[2]

Briggs died in 2004, aged 93.^[2]