Colin Bennetts

Colin James Bennetts (9 September 1940 – 10 July 2013[1]) was a British Anglican bishop.

The son of James Thomas Bennetts and Winifred Couldrey, he was educated at Battersea Grammar School, at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in modern and medieval languages and theology and a Master of Arts in 1963, and at Ridley Hall, Cambridge.

In 1990, he became canon residentiary of Chester Cathedral and Diocesan Director of Ordinands, holding both posts until 1994.

From 1994 to 1998 he was area Bishop of Buckingham in the Diocese of Oxford; he was consecrated a bishop on 29 April 1994 by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral.

Bennetts was trustee of the Coventry Diocesan Board of Finance and chair of the International Centre for Reconciliation.