Richard of Chichester
c. 1197 AD — April 3, 1253 AD · Feast day: April 3
Richard of Chichester refused his brother's estates to pursue scholarship at Oxford and canon law at Bologna, returning to serve as Oxford's chancellor in 1240. Elected Bishop of Chichester in 1244, he spent two years homeless after King Henry III seized his properties and banned anyone from sheltering him — yet he continued his diocesan ministry on foot until Rome forced the king to relent.