Richard Perdue

Richard Gordon Perdue (13 February 1910 – 8 August 1998) was an Anglican bishop.

Perdue was educated at Trinity College, Dublin,^[1] and ordained in 1934.^[2] After curacies at Drumcondra and Rathmines he was the incumbent at Castledermot and then Archdeacon of Killaloe and Kilfenora. He was ordained to the episcopate as the Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh in 1953 and translated to be the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross in 1957.^[3] He retired in 1978.

References

^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
^ A New History of Ireland by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976, ISBN 0198217455

Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by Hedley Webster	Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh 1953 – 1957	Succeeded by Henry Arthur Stanistreet
Preceded by George Otto Simms	Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross 1957– 1978	Succeeded by Samuel Greenfield Poyntz

Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert

Christopher Butson • Stephen Creagh Sandes • Ludlow Tonson • William FitzGerald • William Bennett Chester • Frederick Richards Wynne • Mervyn Archdall • Charles Benjamin Dowse • Thomas Sterling Berry • Henry Edmund Patton • Robert McNeil Boyd • Hedley Webster • Richard Gordon Perdue • Henry Arthur Stanistreet • Edwin Owen

Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross

Samuel Kyle • James Wilson • William Fitzgerald • John Gregg • Robert Gregg • Edward Meade • Charles Dowse • William Edward Flewett • Robert Thomas Hearn • George Simms • Richard Perdue • Samuel Poyntz • Robert Warke • Paul Colton