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Place of Birth: Port Williams, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Canada
About Mark Parent
- Mark Parent (born August 25, 1954, Port Williams, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian clergy, author, academic, and former politician in Nova Scotia. Parent is the son of Baptist missionaries Hazen Coles Parent and Hazel Mildred Anderson.
- Parent was raised in Bolivia, South America before returning to Canada for post secondary studies.
- He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from York University, a Master of Divinity from Acadia Divinity College, and a Doctor of Philosophy from McGill University. Parent is married to his second wife Margie Jenkins and together they have five grown children.
- His first wife, Cathy, died in 1998. Parent served in various churches in Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia before returning home in 1994 to serve as pastor of the Pereaux United Baptist Church.
- During the late 1990s he was an associate professor of Religious Studies at Mount Allison University.
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