Education
Oliver was educated at Westminster and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Oliver was educated at Westminster and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
After a curacy in Norfolk, he spent a period as chaplain and assistant master at Eton College. Following incumbencies in Devon, he became Archdeacon of Sherborne and Rector of West Stafford in Dorset before being ordained to the episcopate in 1990. He was succeeded by Anthony Priddis, previously Suffragan Bishop of Warwick.