Michael Edwin Vickers (born 13 January 1929) is a retired English clergyman. He served as area

Bishop of Colchester The Bishop of Colchester is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Chelmsford, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The current bishop is Roger Morris, former Archdeacon of Worcester, who was consecrate ...

from 1988 to 1994. He was educated at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate and

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before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a

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at Christ Church,

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after which he was Senior Chaplain at

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. Following this he was

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of St John's Newland,

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. Later he became

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and then (his final appointment before appointment to the

episcopate A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or offic ...

) Archdeacon of the East Riding. In retirement he continues to serve the Diocese of Blackburn as an Assistant Bishop. He was made a deacon at

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1959 (27 September) and ordained a priest the following

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(12 June 1960), both times by Christopher Chavasse,

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, at

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. He was consecrated a bishop on 2 February 1988 by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, at

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.https://www.diomedia.com/stock-photo-centre-most-rev-and-rt-hon-dr-robert-runcie-archbishop-of-canterbury-with-left-rt-rev-michael-vickers-bishop-of-colchester-and-right-rt-rev-anthony-russell-archbishop-of-dorchester-com-image17372748.html He owns a photograph of his great-great-great-grandmother who is the earliest-born authenticated person to appear in a photograph. Mary Buckingham (born in 1750) died, aged 101, in 1851. The photograph was taken c.1850.

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1929 births People educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford Archdeacons of the East Riding Bishops of Colchester 20th-century Church of England bishops Living people {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub