George Hacker (bishop)
{{Short description|English Anglican clergyman (1928–2025)}}
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| honorific-prefix = The Rt Revd
| name = George Hacker
| honorific-suffix = MA(Oxon)
| title = Bishop of Penrith
| diocese = Diocese of Carlisle
| term = 1979–1994
| predecessor = Edward Pugh
| successor = Richard Garrard
| other_post = Honorary assistant bishop in Carlisle (1994–2025)
Chaplain, St Boniface's College, Warminster (1959–1964)
| ordination = 1954 (deacon); 1955 (priest)
| consecration = 1979
| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|4|27|df=y}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2025|4|30|1928|4|27|df=y}}
| religion = Anglican
| parents = Edward & Carla Lanyon
| spouse = June Smart (m. 1969)
| children = 1 son; 1 daughter
| occupation =
| profession = Writer
| alma_mater = Exeter College, Oxford
}}
George Lanyon Hacker (27 April 1928 – 30 April 2025) was an English Anglican clergyman who was the sixth Suffragan Bishop of Penrith in the modern era.'HACKER, Rt Rev. George Lanyon', Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U18501], accessed 9 July 2012
Biography
Hacker was educated at Kelly College, TavistockKelly College –Bishop of Penrith to preach at Founders Service The Times Monday, 19 April 1982; pg. 10; Issue 61211; col C and Exeter College, Oxford. He was ordained after a period of study at Cuddesdon in 1955.Debrett's People of Today: Ed Ellis,P (1992, London, Debrett's) {{ISBN|1-870520-09-2}}) He began his career with a curacy at St Mary Redcliffe
[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=002-pstmr&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18 National Archive details] before spells as Chaplain at King's College London, Perpetual curate at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Bishopwearmouth and Rector of Tilehurst.
In 1979 he ascended to the Episcopate, a post he held for 15 years. In retirement, settling at Milburn, Cumbria, he continued to serve the church as an Assistant Bishop within his old diocese.{{Crockford
| surname = Hacker
| forenames = George Lanyon
| id = 13673
| accessed = 18 June 2016
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Hacker died on 30 April 2025, at the age of 97.{{Cite web |title=Diocese of Carlisle - News - Tributes paid to former Bishop of Penrith |url=https://www.carlislediocese.org.uk/news/2025/05/01/tributes-paid-former-bishop-penrith/ |access-date=20 June 2025 |website=www.carlislediocese.org.uk}}
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Category:People educated at Kelly College
Category:Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
Category:Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon
Category:20th-century Church of England bishops
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