Background
Darling was born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at Saint John"s School, Leatherhead and Trinity College, Dublin.
Darling was born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at Saint John"s School, Leatherhead and Trinity College, Dublin.
Trinity College.
He was ordained in 1956: his first posts being curacies in Belfast. He then held incumbencies at Street Gall’s Carnalea, County Down and Street John's Malone, Belfast before his ordination to the episcopate.