Richard Hanson

Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson, FBA, MRIA (1916–1988) was bishop of Clogher in the Church of Ireland from 1970 to 1973. A historian of antiquity he was particularly noted for a life of St. Patrick. He discovered that ecumenical work was particularly restricted in the context of the Troubles in a diocese lying on both sides of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which he accordingly resigned to take up a professorship in Systematic Theology in the Faculty of Theology at Manchester University. During this period he worked notably on the evolution of Christian theology in the period between the Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople He was the first British or Irish contributor to the Sources Chrétiennes collection of early Christian writings.

Occupation

presbyter, patristic scholar

Position held

Anglican Bishop of Clogher

Citizenship

United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Born

1916

Died

1988