Bull George

Bull, George, Bishop of St. David's, was born in 1634 at Wells, Somersetshire. Refusing while at Oxford to take the oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth, he was obliged to leave, and was ordained privately when he was only twenty-one. In 1658 he was appointed Rector of Suddington near Cirencester; in 1685, of Aveniug, Stroud; in 1686, Archdeacon of Llanclaff; and in 1705, Bishop of St. David's. He wrote several religious books; among them Harmonia Apostolica, awakening considerable controversy; the Defensio Fidei Nicenae, his greatest work, showing that the doctrine of the Trinity was an article of faith in the Christian Church previous to the Council of Nicaea; and the Indicium Ecelesiae Catliolicae, which gained for him the thanks of the French clergy.