Harold Fielding (priest), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British Archdeacon
Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1912
Date of Death: 30-Aug-1987
Profession: vicar
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Harold Fielding (priest)
- Harold Ormandy Fielding (13 November 1912 – 30 August 1987) was an Anglican priest who served as Archdeacon of Rochdale from 1972 to 1982.Born in 1912, the son of Harold W.
- Fielding and Florence Fielding (née Ormandy), he was educated at Farnworth Grammar School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, and then trained for the Anglican ministry at Ripon College Cuddesdon.
- Fielding married to Elsie Whillance at St James' Church, Farnworth in 1939.
- They had four children: Timothy, Robert, Catherine, and John.
- After curacies at St Mary's, Leigh and St Paul's, Walkden, he was Vicar of St James', New Bury from 1944 to 1965.
- Fielding was then Vicar of St Peter's, Bolton from 1965 to 1982, during which time he also became Archdeacon of Rochdale.
- After his retirement, he lived in Bromley Cross, a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.
- He published a book in 1983 about James Slade, Vicar of St Peter's, Bolton, one of Fielding's 19th-century predecessors.
- He died on 30 August 1987, aged 74.
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