George Hacker (bishop)
George Lanyon Hacker was an English Anglican clergyman who was the sixth Suffragan Bishop of Penrith in the modern era.
Biography
Hacker was educated at Kelly College, Tavistock and Exeter College, Oxford. He was ordained after a period of study at Cuddesdon in 1955. He began his career with a curacy at St Mary Redcliffebefore 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.
Hacker died on 30 April 2025, at the age of 97.