Ronald Edwin Richards (25 October 1908 - 18 November 1994) was an Australian

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bishop: the fifth Bishop of Bendigo from 1957 to 1974. Richards was born in

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and educated at

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. In 1929 he entered the University of Melbourne studying Arts, and was a resident student at

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. He was ordained in 1933. After a curacy in Rokewood he was priest in charge at Lismore. During World War II he was a

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in the AIF.Veteran Certificate
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until his ordination to the episcopate.

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