Colin Docker

Who is Colin Docker?

Ivor Colin Docker was the 2nd Anglican Bishop of Horsham from 1975 until 1991.

Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Birmingham University and St Catherine's Society, Oxford, he studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a Curacy in Normanton, Yorkshire. From 1954 he was Area Secretary of the CMS 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, where he continues to serve the church as an honorary assistant bishop within the Diocese of Exeter.