Parker was made
deacon on
St Michael's Day 1923 (29 September) by
Henry Wakefield (Bishop of Birmingham) and
ordained priest in
Advent 1924 (19 December) by
Ernest Barnes,
Bishop of Birmingham — both times at
Birmingham Cathedral. He was an
assistant curate at St Bartholomew &
St Jude's Birmingham from 1923 to 1939; although due to the objections to the
high church practices of the parish, he was only licensed by the bishop in 1937. The book was described as "primarily for use at what is known as the Children's Eucharist", but was also "to meet the need of the increasing number of parishes in which there is the 'Parish Eucharist'". On 18 October 1954, Parker was
consecrated a
bishop by
Geoffrey Fisher,
Archbishop of Canterbury, at
Westminster Abbey, to serve as
Bishop of Aston, the sole
suffragan bishop of the
Diocese of Birmingham. He translated to the
Diocese of Bradford as
Bishop of Bradford, its
diocesan bishop, in 1961. On retirement in 1971, he was appointed an
assistant bishop in the dioceses of
Coventry and
Worcester. He died on 5 March 1980. He never married nor had children. ==References==