Charles Mules

The Rt Rev Charles Oliver Mules, DD (8 September 1837, Ilminster – 9 October 1927, Nelson, New Zealand) was the third Anglican Bishop of Nelson,^[1] whose Episcopate spanned a 20 year period during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.^[2]

He was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Cambridge,^[3][4] and ordained in 1864. After a curacy at Whorlton, County Durham he emigrated to New Zealand to work under the Bishop of Nelson, Andrew Burn Suter. He was Vicar of Brightwater ^[5] then Archdeacon ^[6] of Waimea before succeeding Suter.

After resigning his see he lived at Trafalgar Square in the city until his death on 9 October 1927.^[7] He is buried at St Michael’s, Waimea West.^[8]

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Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by Andrew Burn Suter	Bishop of Nelson 1892–1912	Succeeded by William Charles Sadlier

v t e Anglican Bishops of Nelson Edmund Hobhouse Andrew Suter Charles Mules William Sadlier William Hilliard Percival Stephenson Frank Hulme-Moir Peter Sutton Derek Eaton Richard Ellena

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Name	Mules, Charles Oliver
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Date of birth	8 September 1837
Place of birth
Date of death	9 October 1927
Place of death	Nelson, New Zealand