Gavin Andrew Collins was born on 31 December 1966 and is a British Anglican bishop.
17 Facts About Gavin Collins
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Gavin Collins has been Bishop of Dorchester, an area bishop in the Diocese of Oxford, since 14 April 2021.
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Gavin Collins was educated at Sackville School, a comprehensive school in East Grinstead.
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Gavin Collins read law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989, automatically progressing to a Master of Arts in 1993.
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Gavin Collins left his legal career to train for ordination at Trinity College, Bristol, an evangelical Anglican theological college.
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Gavin Collins graduated with another BA in 1996 and a postgraduate Master of Arts degree in 1997.
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Gavin Collins was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1997 and as a priest in 1998.
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Gavin Collins served his curacy at St Barnabas, Cambridge from 1997 to 2002.
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Gavin Collins was additionally rural dean of Rickmansworth from 2006 to 2011.
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On 11 September 2011, Gavin Collins was collated as the second Archdeacon of The Meon at Portsmouth Cathedral.
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Gavin Collins has been a member of the General Synod of the Church of England since 2013.
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Gavin Collins is one of the convenors of the Evangelical Forum, an open evangelical addition to the Synods' evangelical groupings.
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Gavin Collins's consecration was planned for 12 April, but because of the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh that weekend, the service was held privately at Lambeth Palace on 14 April 2021 with a limited congregation under COVID restrictions, and it was not live-streamed.
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Gavin Collins was consecrated a bishop by Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London, in a service which began at 9:45am.
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In November 2022, Gavin Collins endorsed Steven Croft's call that clergy in the Church of England should be free to bless or marry same-sex partners and to enter into a same-sex marriage themselves; this is in contrast to the Church's current official position.
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Gavin Collins is married to Christina and they have three children.
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Gavin Collins has a twin brother who is an Elder in the Baptist Church and a sister who is a Methodist Lay preacher.