- Andhra Christian Theological College, Rajahmundry/Secunderabad (1969-1976) McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario (1992-2015)(1992-2015)(1992-2015)(1992-2015) Chaplain: Nurses Chapel, King George Hospital, Visakhapatnam[1] D'Arcy Place Developmental Centre, Cobourg Muriel Spurgeon Carder (November 1, 1922 – June 14, 2023) was a Canadian Baptist who was the first woman ordained as a Baptist minister in Ontario and Quebec;[5][6][7] she was also a missionary in India.

Carder is related to Charles Spurgeon,[6] a Reformed Baptist minister, and had a brother named David.

[10] The ceremony took place on September 16 at the King Street Baptist Church in Cambridge, Ontario.

[11][10][9] Carder took up evangelism, and was sent to India as a representative of the Canadian Baptist Mission serving in schools and hospitals.

During the academic year 1965–1966, she again taught New Testament and Greek[1] at McMaster Divinity College.

[4] At that time Carder enrolled as a doctoral candidate at the Toronto School of Theology and was awarded a Th.D.

[19] The citation also noted that her ordained status was a contributing factor to the later ordination of women in the Church of South India.

[19] Carder was a member of the Society for Biblical Studies in India and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.