David Hawkins

Who is David Hawkins?

David John Leader Hawkins was the area Bishop of Barking in the Church of England from 2003 to 2014.

Hawkins was educated at the University of Nottingham. After further study at St John's College, Nottingham he was ordained in 1974. His ordained ministry as a curate at St Andrew’s Bebington, after which he was spent six years in Nigeria. He was then vicar of St George’s Leeds for 16 years until his ordination to the episcopate. A keen mountain walker, he is married with three children.