Colin Docker

Colin Docker

Ivan Colin Docker (known as Colin;[1][2] born 3 December 1925) was the 2nd Anglican Bishop of Horsham from 1975[3] until 1991. Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Birmingham University and St Catherine's Society, Oxford,[4] he studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a Curacy in Normanton, Yorkshire.[5] From 1954 he was Area Secretary of the CMS[6] and, after spells as Vicar of Midhurst and Seaford he was appointed Rural Dean of Eastbourne in 1971. Four years later he was elevated to the Episcopate. A keen photographer,he retired to Bovey Tracey in 1991.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ The Bells & Bell Ringers of St Margaret's Church, Angmering
  2. ^ Diocese of Port Moresby — Bishop's News (Jan 2003)
  3. ^ The Times, Saturday, 1 February 1975; p. 16; Issue 59309; col B Archbishop Coggan’s first consecration
  4. ^ Who's Who 1992 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0713635142
  5. ^ "Debrett's People of Today": 1990, London, Debrett's ISBN 1870520090
  6. ^ Crockfords,(London, Church House 1975) ISBN 0108153674
  7. ^ Where he continued to serve the church as an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Exeter-Who’s Who (ibid)
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Preceded by
Simon Wilton Phipps		 Bishop of Horsham
1975 – 1991		 Succeeded by
John Hind


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