Denis Bryant


Denis William Bryant was an Anglican bishop in the third quarter of the 20th century.
He was born on 1 January 1918, and educated at Cardiff University. His father was a well-known harpist and kept the Carpenters' Arms public house in Efail Isaf. He was ordained in 1956 after an earlier career as an RAF Officer he was Rector of Esperance, Western Australia and then Archdeacon of the Goldfields before appointment to the Episcopate as the 4th Bishop of Kalgoorlie: he was consecrated a bishop on 30 November 1967 at St George's Cathedral, Perth. He served as the final diocesan bishop of Kalgoorlie until its union to the Diocese of Perth in 1973, after which he was Rector and Archdeacon of Northam and Assistant Bishop of Perth.