page_title: Colin Winter
section_title: Exile
hierarchical_section_title: Colin Winter / Exile
caption_attribution_description: English: The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England
context_page_description: 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 coextensive with the territory of what is now Namibia during the apartheid era.
context_section_description: Following his expulsion, he remained, at the request of the synod of his diocese, "bishop-in-exile", continuing to speak and write on behalf of independence for Namibia and ordaining clergy to serve there. He was known variously as Bishop of Damaraland(-in-exile) and Bishop of Namibia(-in-exile); during his exile, his eventual successor Kauluma was elected and consecrated suffragan bishop for his diocese. Newspaper publisher David Astor lent Winter The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay that originally belonged to the historic Abingdon Abbey to house the Namibia International Peace Centre.
  Although he had been a conscientious objector against British National Service, Winter defended the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), an armed independence movement that later became Namibia's dominant political party. He died of a heart attack at age 53 in exile in London, at his home in East London: the second location of the Namibia International Peace Centre, in Bethnal Green.
caption: The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, which Winter used to house the Namibia International Peace Centre in the 1970s.
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