Ronald Edwin Richards (25 October 1908 - 18 November 1994) was an Australian Anglican bishop: the fifth Bishop of Bendigo from 1957 to 1974.^[1]

Richards was born in Ballarat and educated at Ballarat High School. In 1929 he entered the University of Melbourne studying Arts, and was a resident student at Trinity College.^[2] He was ordained in 1933.^[3] After a curacy in Rokewood he was priest in charge at Lismore. During World War II he was a chaplain in the AIF.^[4] When peace returned he was Vicar of Warrnambool then Archdeacon of Ballarat until his ordination to the episcopate.