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Ronald Edwin Richards (25 October 1908 – 18 November 1994) was an Australian Anglican bishop: the fifth Bishop of Bendigo from 1957 to 1974.Richards was born in Ballarat and educated at Ballarat High School and the University of Melbourne. He was ordained in 1933. After a curacy in Rokewood he was priest in charge at Lismore. During World War Two he was a chaplain in the AIF. When peace returned he was Vicar of Warrnambool then Archdeacon of Ballarat until his ordination to the episcopate.