Colin O'Brien Winter was an English Anglican bishop, who served as Bishop of Damaraland, a diocese of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa) coextensive with the territory of what is now Namibia during the apartheid era.
He was expelled from Namibia for anti-apartheid activism, and remained "bishop-in-exile", continuing to speak and write on behalf of independence for Namibia and ordaining clergy to serve there.
He died of a heart attack at age 53 in exile in London.Colin O'Brien Winter was an English Anglican bishop, who served as Bishop of Damaraland, a diocese of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa) coextensive with the territory of what is now Namibia during the apartheid era.
He was expelled from Namibia for anti-apartheid activism, and remained "bishop-in-exile", continuing to speak and write on behalf of independence for Namibia and ordaining clergy to serve there.
He died of a heart attack at age 53 in exile in London....more
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