| Colin Docker | |
| Bishop of Horsham | |
| Church: | Church of England |
| Diocese: | Diocese of Chichester |
| Term: | 1975–1991 Area bishop: 1984–1991 |
| Predecessor: | Simon Phipps |
| Successor: | John Hind |
| Other Post: | Honorary assistant bishop in Exeter (1991–present) |
| Birth Date: | 3 December 1925 |
| Religion: | Anglican |
| Parents: | Philip Docker & Doris Whitehill |
| Spouse: | Thelma Upton (m. 1950) |
| Children: | 1 son; 1 daughter |
| Alma Mater: | University of Birmingham |
Ivor Colin Docker (known as Colin;[1] [2] 3 December 1925 - 4 November 2014) was the 2nd Anglican Bishop of Horsham from 1975[3] until 1991 and the first area bishop from the area scheme's institution in 1984.[4]
Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Birmingham University (whence he gained a Master of Arts) and St Catherine's Society, Oxford,[5] 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[6] and, after spells as Vicar of Midhurst and Seaford he was appointed Rural Dean of Eastbourne in 1971. Four years later he was appointed to become Bishop of Horsham, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Chichester; he was consecrated a bishop by Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey on 31 January 1975. 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.