John Austin Baker

Who is John Austin Baker?

John Austin Baker was the Bishop of Salisbury in the Church of England from 1982 until 1993.

Baker was educated at Marlborough College and Oriel College, Oxford. Ordained in 1955, he began his ministry with curacies at All Saint's Cuddesdon and St Anselm's Hatch End, after which he was a fellow and lecturer at Corpus Christi College, Oxford until 1973. From then until his ordination to the episcopate he was a residential canon at Westminster Abbey.

A keen musician, Baker is a prominent author. In retirement he continues to serve as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Winchester