Richard Rutt

Cecil Richard Rutt CBE (27 August 1925 – 27 July 2011) was an English Roman Catholic priest and a former Anglican bishop.

Rutt spent almost 20 years of his life serving as an Anglican missionary in South Korea, a country for which he developed a deep affection. He was perhaps the last of the line of scholar-missionaries, beginning with James Scarth Gale, Homer B. Hulbert, George Heber Jones and the Anglican bishop Mark Napier Trollope who laid the foundations of what is now known as Korean studies. Some years after he retired as an Anglican bishop, Rutt was one of several Anglicans received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1994. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest the following year and spent the closing years of his life in Cornwall.

Rutt was the son of Cecil Rutt and Mary Hare (née Turner). He was educated at Kelham Theological College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, from which he received his Master of Arts degree.

Rutt was ordained an Anglican priest in 1952. After a curacy at St George's Cambridge he went to South Korea as a missionary in 1954 together with Roger Tennant. In 1965 he was appointed Archdeacon of West Seoul. In June 1966 he was appointed an assistant bishop of the Diocese of Daejeon by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In February 1968 he became Bishop of Daejeon. He was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1973.

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