The Reverend James Colwill was Instituted as Vicar of Christ Church Orpington on the 27 May 2003

He is known as Jay and came to us from nine years ministry in the Diocese of Oxford. He was Team Vicar at St Michael & St Mary Magdalene Church in Easthamstead, a parish which covers about half the new town of Bracknell. He was also Minister with Special Responsibility for the Church at The Pines, a local ecumenical partnership in a Bracknell school with a Methodist colleague. He was previously Curate in the parish of St Agnes with St Paul, Reading. He trained at St John’s Theological College in Nottingham.