Colin Docker
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Ivor Colin Docker (known as Colin;[1][2] 3 December 1925 – 4 November 2014) was the 2nd Anglican Bishop of Horsham from 1975[3] until 1991 and the first area bishop from the area scheme's institution in 1984.[4]
Area bishop: 1984–1991
Colin Docker | |||||||||||||||
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| Bishop of Horsham | |||||||||||||||
| Church | Church of England | ||||||||||||||
| Diocese | Diocese of Chichester | ||||||||||||||
| In office | 1975–1991 Area bishop: 1984–1991 | ||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Simon Phipps | ||||||||||||||
| Successor | John Hind | ||||||||||||||
| Other post | Honorary assistant bishop in Exeter (1991–present) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 3 December 1925 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 4 November 2014 (aged 88) | ||||||||||||||
| Denomination | Anglican | ||||||||||||||
| Parents | Philip Docker & Doris Whitehill | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Thelma Upton (m. 1950) | ||||||||||||||
| Children | 1 son; 1 daughter | ||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Birmingham | ||||||||||||||
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Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Birmingham University (whence he gained a Master of Arts {MA}) and St Catherine's Society, Oxford,[5] he studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Normanton, Yorkshire.[6] From 1954 he was Area Secretary of the CMS[7] and, after spells as Vicar of Midhurst and Seaford he was appointed 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.
