Colin Docker

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Colin Docker
Area bishop: 1984–1991
PredecessorSimon Phipps
SuccessorJohn Hind
Other post(s)Honorary assistant bishop in Exeter (1991–present)
Personal details
Born(1925-12-03)3 December 1925
Died4 November 2014(2014-11-04) (aged 88)
DenominationAnglican
ParentsPhilip Docker & Doris Whitehill
SpouseThelma Upton (m. 1950)
Children1 son; 1 daughter
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham
Ordination history
History
Diaconal ordination
Datec. 1949
Priestly ordination
Datec. 1950
Episcopal consecration
PlaceWestminster Abbey Edit this on Wikidata

Ivor Colin Docker (known as Colin;

area scheme's institution in 1984.[4]

Educated at

Rural Dean of Eastbourne in 1971. Four years later he was appointed to become Bishop of Horsham, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Chichester; he was consecrated a bishop by Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey on 31 January 1975.[8] A keen photographer, he retired to Bovey Tracey in 1991, where he continued to serve the church as an honorary assistant bishop within the Diocese of Exeter
.

References

  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. ^ "4: The Dioceses Commission, 1978–2002" (PDF). Church of England. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  5. ^ ‘DOCKER, Rt Rev. Ivor Colin’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 [1], accessed 5 July 2012
  6. . Retrieved 25 June 2018 – via UK Press Online archives.
Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Horsham
1975–1991
Succeeded by