Colin Buchanan

Who is Colin Buchanan?

Colin Ogilvie Buchanan is a retired Anglican bishop of the Church of England. Buchanan was the Bishop of Aston from 1985 until 1989 and then, after time as the Vicar of St Mark's Gillingham, Kent, the Bishop of Woolwich.

Buchanan was educated at Whitgift School and Lincoln College, Oxford. Ordained in 1962 he was a curate in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, after which he was successively librarian, registrar and finally principal of St John's College, Nottingham. He is married with two children and in retirement is an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Bradford.