Richard William Bryant Atkinson, OBE (born 17 December 1958) is a British Anglican bishop. He was the Archdeacon of Leicester between 2002 and 2012, and is the current suffragan Bishop of Bedford in the Diocese of St Albans, serving the churches of the Bedford Archdeaconry. He succeeded Richard Inwood who retired to the Diocese of Derby. Atkinson was educated at St Paul's School, London, Magdalene College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was ordained in 1985 and was a curate in Abingdon. After this he held incumbencies in Sheffield and Rotherham.