Richard Clerk (bishop)

Richard Clerk was a Bishop in England and Ireland in the mid 15th century.[1]

A priest in the Diocese of Meath, he was Bishop of Ross in Ireland from 1434 to 1448. He also acted as a suffragan bishop in the dioceses of London (1434–41); Canterbury (1439–65), and Salisbury (1454).[2]

References

  1. Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 372–374.
  2. Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 374, 406 and 442.
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