{{Short description|Welsh bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2016}} [[File:Richard Parry, Cofeb Llanelwy, St Asaph 07.jpg|thumb|upright|Statue of Richard Parry on the Translators' Memorial in the churchyard of St Asaph Cathedral]] '''Richard Parry''' (1560–1623) was a Bishop of St Asaph and translator of the Bible to the Welsh language.<ref name="Stephens">{{cite book|author1=Former Literature Director Meic Stephens|author2=Welsh Academy|title=The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P51iAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-211586-7|page=461}}</ref>

Parry was born in 1560, the son of John ap Harri, from Pwllhalog, Cwm, Flintshire, and Ruthin, and his wife, Elen ferch Dafydd ap John, a lady from Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, near Ruthin, North Wales. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.<ref>[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1104-1131 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Pace-Payton]</ref>

He was ordained a deacon in 1584, and in May was instituted to a comportion of the tithes of Llanelidan and the endowment of Ruthin Free School where he became headmaster. His brother-in-law was the lexicologist, John Davies, who assisted him with the revision of the Welsh Bible and Book of Common Prayer

==References== {{Reflist}} * [https://books.google.com/books?id=_esuAAAAMAAJ&dq=richard+parry+bishop&pg=PA101 The Royal Tribes of Wales] - which is out of copyright.

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