Education
Fletcher was educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Oxford.
Fletcher was educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Oxford.
He is the Acting Bishop of Oxford (as the senior area bishop) and the current area Bishop of Dorchester in the Diocese of Oxford. After studying at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford he was ordained in 1976. His ordained ministry began with a curacy at Shipley.
Fletcher was then a tutor at Wycliffe Hall and after that Vicar of Holy Trinity in Margate for eight years, before becoming chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury — a post he held for seven years.
During his time as chaplain, he was co-chair of the Lambeth Group, which was set up to advise the British government on the "spiritual aspects of the millennium". Fletcher was appointed to the episcopate in 2000, succeeding Anthony Russell on his appointment as Bishop of Ely.
He was consecrated as a bishop in Westminster Abbey by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, in October 2000. Following the retirement of Richard Harries as Bishop of Oxford, Fletcher was Acting Bishop of Oxford until the appointment of John Pritchard.
In 2014 he became acting bishop again following Pritchard"s retirement.
A keen ornithologist, Fletcher is married with three children. The Reverend Colin Fletcher (1976–1988)
The Reverend Canon Colin Fletcher (1988–2000)
The Right Reverend Colin Fletcher (2000–present).