Colin John Fraser Scott (14 May 1933 – 1 April 2014) was the

Bishop of Hulme The Bishop of Hulme was an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Manchester, in the Province of York, England. The See was created by Order in Council on 11 October 1923 (under the Suffragans Nomination ...

from 1984 until 1998. Scott was educated at

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and Queens' College, Cambridge (becoming a Cambridge Master of Arts). After

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at St Barnabas,

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and St James,

Hatcham Hatcham was a manor and later a chapelry in what is now London, England. It largely corresponds to the area around New Cross in the London Borough of Lewisham. The ancient parish of Deptford straddled the counties of Surrey and Kent and there c ...

he was

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of St Mark, Kennington. Following this he was

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of the ''Southwark Diocesan Pastoral Committee '' and then (his final appointment before elevation to the

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) Team Rector of

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.Work in Southwark
In retirement he served the

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as an

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within the

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. He was a prominent member of the

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