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
The Diocese of Brandon is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land of the Anglican Church of Canada. It has an area of . The Rt. Rev'd William Grant Cliff, (formerly Rector of the Collegiate Chapel of St John the Evangelist at Hu ...
at the
Anglican Church of Canada
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from 1992 to 2001.
He was educated at
The University of Western Ontario
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and
ordained
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a priest in 1962. 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
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until 1973. He became then
Rector
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of St George's,
Brandon, Manitoba
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. He was
Archdeacon
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of
the area until 1992 when he ascended to the
episcopate
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
. He retired in 2001.
He was the second
Anglican Church of Canada
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bishop to leave, after
Don Harvey in November 2007, due to the theological liberalism of the church, becoming a
suffragan bishop
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In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdiction ...
in the
Anglican Network in Canada
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, then affiliated with the
Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America
The Anglican Church of South America ( es, Iglesia Anglicana de Sudamérica) is the ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion that covers six dioceses in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
Formed in 1981 ...
, and a founding diocese of the
Anglican Church in North America
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, in June 2009.
Second Anglican Network in Canada Bishop Received Into Southern Cone, Anglican Network in Canada website, 22 November 2007
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Notes
1936 births
Living people
Canadian bishops of the Anglican Church in North America
University of Western Ontario alumni
Anglican archdeacons in North America
Anglican bishops of Brandon
20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops
21st-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops
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