Richard Clerk (bishop) explained

Richard Clerk was a bishop in England and Ireland in the mid 15th century.

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).

Bibliography

• Book: Fryde . E. B. . Greenway . D. E. . Porter . S. . Roy . I. . Handbook of British Chronology . 3rd, reprinted 2003 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, England . 1986 . 0-521-56350-X .