Donald Arden

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Donald Seymour Arden CBE (born 12 April 1916^[1]) is a retired Anglican archbishop.^[2]

Arden was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide and the University of Leeds. He was ordained deacon in 1939 and priest in 1940 after studying at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield.^[3] His first posts were curacies in Hatcham and Nettleden. In 1944 he joined the Pretoria African Mission, eventually becoming Director of the Usuthu Mission in Swaziland. From 1961^[4] to 1971 he was the Bishop of Nyasaland/Malawi – as Bishop of Nyasaland until Malawian independence in 1964 and as Bishop of Malawi thereafter.^[5] When the diocese split in 1971, he became bishop of one of the two new dioceses as Bishop of Southern Malawi.^[5] Also in that year, he became Archbishop of Central Africa,^[6] and held both posts until retiring in 1980. He then returned to England to become priest in charge of St Margaret’s Uxbridge from 1981 to 1986. He is now an hononary assistant at St Alban’s North Harrow.

In December 2011, Arden celebrated 50 years of episcopal ministry with his family at St Paul's Cathedral. He was consecrated (as Bishop of Nyasaland) on 30 November 1961.^[7]

Notes

↑ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
↑ NLA
↑ Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
↑ The Times, 8 September 1961, p.14, "News in Brief"
↑ 5.0 5.1 Anglican Diocese of Southern Malawi – History
↑ 'Ramsey/4-287/1967/111/269-72') National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
↑ The Church Times #7760, 9 December 2011. p. 6

Church of England titles
Preceded by Frank Oswald Thorne	Bishop of Nyasaland 1961–1964	Succeeded by Himself as Bishop of Malawi
Preceded by Himself as Bishop of Nyasaland	Bishop of Malawi 1964–1971	Diocese split
New diocese	Bishop of Southern Malawi 1971–1980	Succeeded by Dunstan Ainani
Preceded by Oliver Green-Wilkinson	Archbishop of Central Africa 1971–1980	Succeeded by Walter Paul Khotso Makhulu

v t e Bishops of Nyasaland

Charles Mackenzie William Tozer Edward Steere Charles Smythies Wilfrid Hornby Chauncy Maples John Hine Gerard Trower Cathrew Fisher Gerald Douglas Frank Thorne Donald Arden (became Bishop of Malawi) diocese split

v t e Archbishops of Central Africa

Edward Paget James Hughes Oliver Green-Wilkinson Donald Arden Walter Khotso Makhulu Bernard Malango Albert Chama

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Name	Arden, Donald Seymour
Alternative names
Short description	Archbishop of Central Africa; Bishop of Northern Malawi; Bishop of Malawi; Bishop of Nyasaland
Date of birth	12 April 1916
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Date of death
Place of death

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