Colin Buchanan (bishop)

The Rt Revd Colin Buchanan MA(Oxon)
Bishop of Woolwich
Diocese	Diocese of Southwark
In office	1996–2004 (retired)
Predecessor	Peter Hall
Successor	Christopher Chessun
Other posts	honorary assistant bishop in Bradford (2004–present); and in Rochester (1989–1996) Bishop of Aston (1985–1989) Principal, London College of Divinity (1979–1985)
Orders
Ordination	1961 (deacon); 1962 (priest)
Consecration	1985
Personal details
Born	8 August 1934
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Prof. Robert & Kathleen Parnell
Spouse	wife (m. 1963)
Children	2 daughters
Profession	Academic (liturgy)
Alma mater	Lincoln College, Oxford

Colin Ogilvie Buchanan (born 8 August 1934) is a retired Anglican bishop of the Church of England. Buchanan was the Bishop of Aston from 1985 until 1989^[1][2] and then, after time as the Vicar of St Mark's Gillingham, Kent,^[3] the area Bishop of Woolwich.

Buchanan was educated at Whitgift School and Lincoln College, Oxford.^[4] Ordained in 1962 he was a curate in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, after which he was successively librarian, registrar and finally (before his ordination to the episcopate) principal of St John's College, Nottingham. He is married with two children^[5] and in retirement is an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Bradford.

Selected Works

• Buchanan, Colin (2006). Historical Dictionary of Anglicanism. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810853270.
• — (1998). Is the Church of England Biblical?: An Anglican Ecclesiology. London, UK: Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd. ISBN 978-0232521344.

References

1. Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0
2. Then John Michael Austin Crockfords (ibid)
3. St Mark's Church, Gillingham
4. "Buchanan, Rt Rev. Colin Ogilvie", Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 , accessed 4 July 2012
5. Debrett's People of Today London, 2008 Debrett's, ISBN 978-1-870520-95-9

Further reading

• Buchanan, Colin (2006). "About the Author". Historical Dictionary of Anglicanism. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. pp. 551–554. ISBN 978-0810853270.