Cyril Bulley


Sydney Cyril Bulley was an English bishop.
He was born on 12 June 1907 and educated at the University of Durham. He was a member of St Chad's College. He began his ministry as a curate at Newark and was then successively vicar of Worksop, Rural Dean of Mansfield, Director of Religious Education in the Diocese of Carlisle and Archdeacon of [Westmorland and Furness] before his ordination to the episcopate, initially as the Suffragan Bishop of Penrith and then as Bishop of Carlisle. In 1972 he was an awarded an honorary doctorate by Durham.
A noted author, his works included the autobiographical “The Glass of Time”, published in 1981, “Faith, Fire and Fun”, 1985 and “Glimpses of the Divine”, 1987 He was also a Cumbrian enthusiast. He retired in 1972 and died on 20 November 1989.