Richard Rutt

Richard Rutt
Richard Rutt
Bishop of Leicester
	Richard Rutt, 1980s
Diocese	Diocese of Leicester
In office	1979–1990 (ret.)
Predecessor	Ronald Williams
Successor	Tom Butler
Other post(s)	Assistant Bishop of Daejeon (1966–1968); Bishop of Daejeon (1968–1973); Bishop of St Germans (1974–1979); Roman Catholic priest (1994–2011);
Orders
Ordination	CofE: 1951 (deacon); 1952 (priest); RC: ? (deacon); 1995 (priest); by Edward Wynn (CofE Ely); Christopher Budd (RC Plymouth)
Consecration	CofE: 1966
Personal details
Born	27 August 1925
Died	27 July 2011 (aged 85); Treliske Hospital, Truro, UK
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglo-Catholic (until 1994); Roman Catholic (thereafter);
Alma mater	Pembroke College, Cambridge

Cecil Richard Rutt CBE (27 August 1925 – 27 July 2011) was an English Roman Catholic priest and a former Anglican bishop.

Rutt spent almost 20 years of his life serving as an Anglican missionary in South Korea, a country for which he developed a deep affection. He, like other scholar-missionaries such as James Scarth Gale, Homer B. Hulbert, George Heber Jones, and Anglican bishop Mark Napier Trollope, made significant contributions to Korean studies. Some years after he retired as an Anglican bishop, Rutt was one of several Anglicans received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1994. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest the following year and spent the closing years of his life in Cornwall.