Paul Richardson

Who is Paul Richardson?

Paul Richardson is a Catholic priest and a former Anglican bishop.

Richardson was educated at Keswick School, The Queen's College, Oxford, Harvard Divinity School and Cuddesdon Theological College. He was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1973 and served first as a curate at St John’s Earlsfield, London. He was then the assistant chaplain in Oslo, Norway and then a mission priest at Nambaiyfa in the highlands of Papua New Guinea before becoming the principal of Newton Theological College, Popondetta and then the dean of St John’s Cathedral, Port Moresby. He was the Bishop of Aipo Rongo in the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea from 1987 to 1995 when he was translated to the Diocese of Wangaratta in the Anglican Church of Australia. From 1998 to 16 January 2010 he was the Assistant Bishop of Newcastle in the Church of England. In 2010 he was received into the Roman Catholic Church and was subsequently reordained to the priesthood.