Spouse Thelma Upton (m. 1950) | Name Colin Docker Consecration 1975 | |
In office 1975–1991Area bishop: 1984–1991 Ordination c. 1949 (deacon); c. 1950 Born 3 December 1925 ( 1925-12-03 ) Parents Col Philip Docker OBE TD DL & Doris Whitehill Died November 4, 2014, Devon, United Kingdom Education University of Birmingham, St Catherine's College, Oxford | ||
Ivor Colin Docker (known as Colin; 3 December 1925 – 4 November 2014) was the 2nd Anglican Bishop of Horsham from 1975 until 1991 and the first area bishop from the area scheme's institution in 1984.
Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Birmingham University (whence he gained a Master of Arts {MA}) 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 continued to serve the church as an honorary assistant bishop within the Diocese of Exeter.