Richard Garrard was the Church of England’s Suffragan Bishop of Penrith. Ordained in 1962, he began his career with a curacy in Woolwich and was then successively a chaplain at Keswick Hall College of Education, principal of the Church Army Training College, canon chancellor at Southwark Cathedral, educational advisor to the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and finally (before his elevation to the episcopate in 1994) Archdeacon of Sudbury. From 2001 to 2003, he was the Archbishop of Canterbury’s representative to the Holy See and director of the Anglican Centre in Rome.