| Type: | Bishop |
| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
| Henning Toft Bro | |
| Bishop of Aalborg | |
| Church: | Church of Denmark |
| Diocese: | Aalborg |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Term: | 2010-2021 |
| Retired: | --> |
| Predecessor: | Søren Lodberg Hvas |
| Successor: | Thomas Reinholdt Rasmussen |
| Ordination: | 1985 |
| Consecration: | 9 May 2010 |
| Birth Date: | 23 October 1956 |
| Tomb: | --> |
| Nationality: | Dane |
| Religion: | Lutheran |
| Spouse: | Ragna Bro |
| Children: | 3 |
| Previous Post: | --> |
| Alma Mater: | Aarhus University |
Henning Toft Bro is a Danish prelate who served as the Bishop of Aalborg, Denmark from 2010 until 2021.
After graduation, Toft Bro went to the sea where he worked as a fisherman. Afterwards he was a port worker at the harbor in Thyborøn. A year and a half later he went to Nørre Nissum to study at the Nørre Nissum Seminarium and HF. After he went to Aarhus University to study theology. Here he became a graduate of cand.theol in the spring of 1985.
His first position as parish priest started on 1 September 1985 when he was assigned to Hjerm Sogn parish in Struer. Twenty years later, Toft was appointed as a priest in Nykøbing Mors Sogn in 1997. He remained in this post until spring 2010. In 2004 he became Knight of Dannebrog.
During the 2010 election for a new Bishop of Aalborg, Toft Bro went through a two-stage election where his last rival was Marianne Christiansen. Toft Bro received 970 votes out of the 1,796 votes counted. On 9 May 2010 Toft Bro was given the position as the 58th Bishop of Aalborg in Aalborg Cathedral.[1]
Henning Toft Bro was a member of the band Tørfisk from 1983 to 1995 and has participated in many of the band's musical albums. Bent Bro is one of the founders of Tørfisk in 1981 . It was Henning Toft who wrote the group's big hit " VLTJ ". He has also published solo projects with hymns and shows, just as he has written teaching and service material.[2]