Paul Hardin Jr., Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetPaul Hardin Jr.
bishop in The Methodist Church
Date of Birth: 07-Nov-1903
Date of Death: 22-Jun-1996
Profession: Catholic priest
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Paul Hardin Jr.
- Paul Hardin Jr.
- (November 7, 1903 – June 22, 1996) was a bishop in The Methodist Church in the U.S., elected in 1960. He was Bishop of the Alabama-West Florida Annual Conference of the Methodist Church in 1963 when he joined seven other white clergymen to write the letter A Call For Unity, making a thinly veiled reference to Martin Luther King Jr.; King replied to this letter with his Letter from Birmingham Jail. Paul was the son of Paul and Harriet (Wannamaker) Hardin.
- He attended Wofford College in 1920, where he studied law and then to Candler School of Theology, Emory University in 1924, where he received his divinity degree in 1927.
- Hardin was ordained Deacon in 1929 and Elder in 1931.
- He was assigned to pastorates in North Carolina and in 1949 he was appointed to Birmingham, Alabama First Methodist Church.
- Hardin was elected bishop on July 15, 1960, at the Southeastern Jurisdictional conference.
- For many years he was the resident bishop of the Columbia (South Carolina) area.
- From 1961 to 1964 he also had charge of the Alabama-West Florida Conference following the death of Bishop Bachman Gladstone Hodge. Bishop Hardin was a member of the General Board of Education; of the General Board of Christian Social Concerns; and president of the Council on World Service and Finance.
- He was a delegate to the General Conference and Jurisdictional Conference of 1960.
- He was a member of the Lake Junaluska Assembly and a trustee of Emory University.
- Bishop Hardin was installed as president of the United Methodist Church's Council of Bishops on April 15, 1971, in San Antonio, Texas.
- Bishop Hardin died in 1996.
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