The Rev Dr Peter Mullen is a priest of the Church of England and former Rector of St Michael, Cornhill and St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in the City of London. Mullen is Chaplain to the Honourable Company of Air Pilots, one of the Livery Companies of the City of London and the Anglican Chaplain to the London Stock Exchange, a largely honorific and historical post.

Peter Mullen studied philosophy at Liverpool and theology at Manchester, and was ordained in 1970. He has worked in town and city parishes, as a school chaplain and, for many years, he was a country parson in Yorkshire.

He has written for many publications including the Wall Street Journal. He was a columnist for the Northern Echo until 2010.

Below is an extract from an article in the Northern Echo written on his retirement in 2010

PETER Mullen was born in Leeds in January 1942, brought up between the munitions factory and the gas works, was sent to church (he says) because his parents liked a lie down on a Sunday afternoon. At 13, however, he read Bertrand Russell - not, perhaps, the usual teenager's reading in the Fifties - and became an atheist.
Two years later, he was throwing a ball about in the street when a passing curate said that he expected to see him in church on Sunday morning.

By that time, he says, he had become "extremely naughty", a serial truant who turned up only to play cricket and claim the annual poetry prize. He went to church, nonetheless - "God knows why, I wasn't accustomed to being obedient" - and was at once so overcome by what he saw and heard that at the end of the service he told the vicar that he, too, wanted to become a priest.
"Very good," said that wise man, perhaps having heard similar stuff before, "but first we'd better get you confirmed."
He left school (1958) with only two O-levels, worked in a warehouse, later for the Ministry of Labour, studied A-levels in his own time and earned a few bob - "a 10/6d postal order usually" - by filling a few column inches for the Armley and Wortley News.
"Much of it was counting people at funerals. I still thought I was some ace journalist."

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