Biography of Bishop Richard Pate -1565
In 1523 Bishop Richard Pate graduated BA from Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.
In 1527 Bishop Richard Pate was appointed Archdeacon of Winchester.
In 1528 Bishop Richard Pate was appointed Archdeacon of Lincoln.
In 1544 Bishop Richard Pate was appointed Bishop of Worcester having been appointed by the Pope in 1541.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 25 Mar 1556. The xxv day of Marche was owre Lady day, the Annunsyasyon, at Bow chyrche in London was hangyd with cloth of gold, and with ryche hares [arras] and cossens for the commyng of my lord cardenall Polle (age 56); ther dyd the bysshope of Vosseter dyd synge he masse mytyred; and ther wher dyver bysshopes, as the bysshope of Ely (age 50), bysshope of London (age 56), and bysshope of Lynkkolne (age 46), and the yerle of Penbroke (age 55), and ser Edward Hastynges (age 35), the master of horsse, and dyvers odur nobuls, and after masse done to my lord (unfinished).
In 1565 Bishop Richard Pate died.