Malcolm Harding (bishop of Brandon) explained

Type:Bishop
Malcolm Harding
5th Bishop of Brandon
Church:Anglican Church of Canada
Diocese:Brandon
Term:1992–2001
Predecessor:John Conlin
Successor:Jim Njegovan
Ordination:1962
Consecration:1992
Consecrated By:Michael Peers
Birth Date:28 June 1936
Birth Place:Chesterfield
Other Post:Assisting bishop, Anglican Network in Canada (2007–present)

Malcolm Alfred Warden Harding (born 28 June 1936 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England) is an English-born Canadian Anglican Bishop. He was the fifth Bishop of Brandon at the Anglican Church of Canada from 1992 to 2001.

He was educated at The University of Western Ontario[1] and ordained a priest in 1962.[2] He began his career in charge of five rural parishes in the Fredericton Diocese after which he worked for the Children's Aid Society in a number of roles in Ontario until 1973. He became then Rector of St George's, Brandon, Manitoba. He was Archdeacon of the area until 1992 when he ascended to the episcopate. He retired in 2001.

He was the second Anglican Church of Canada bishop to leave, after Don Harvey in November 2007, due to the theological liberalism of the church, becoming a suffragan bishop in the Anglican Network in Canada, then affiliated with the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America, and a founding diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, in June 2009.[3]

Notes and References

  1. [Who's Who]
  2. [Crockford's clerical directory|Crockford’s]
  3. http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/second-anglican-network-in-canada-bishop-received-into-southern-cone-795678.htm Second Anglican Network in Canada Bishop Received Into Southern Cone, Anglican Network in Canada website, 22 November 2007