Richard Rutt

Richard Rutt
Bishop of Leicester
Elderly priest with spectacles and clerical collar
Richard Rutt, 1980s
DioceseDiocese of Leicester
In office1979–1990 (ret.)
PredecessorRonald Williams
SuccessorTom 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
OrdinationCofE: 1951 (deacon); 1952 (priest)
RC: ? (deacon); 1995 (priest)
by Edward Wynn (CofE Ely)
Christopher Budd (RC Plymouth)
ConsecrationCofE: 1966
Personal details
Born(1925-08-27)27 August 1925
Died27 July 2011(2011-07-27) (aged 85)
Treliske Hospital, Truro, UK
NationalityBritish
Denomination
Alma materPembroke 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.