Malcolm Alfred Warden Harding (28 June 1936 – 14 June 2026) was an English-born Canadian Anglican bishop. He was the fifth bishop of Brandon in the Anglican Church of Canada from 1992 to 2001.
Biography Harding was born in Sheffield, England, in 1936 and migrated with his family to Canada in 1947.
He was educated at The University of Western OntarioWho's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 and ordained a priest in 1962.Crockford’s 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 He began his ordained ministry in charge of five rural parishes in the Diocese of Fredericton, after which he worked for the Children's Aid Society in a number of roles in Ontario until 1973. He then became rector of St George's Brandon, Manitoba. He was archdeacon of the area until 1992 when he was ordained 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.Second Anglican Network in Canada Bishop Received Into Southern Cone, Anglican Network in Canada website, 22 November 2007
Harding died at 89 in Brandon.
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