Robert David Silk (23 August 1936 – 20 September 2023) was an English priest of the Roman Catholic Church.

[2] He was educated at Gillingham Grammar School, Exeter University and St Stephen's House, Oxford.

[3] Silk was ordained in the Church of England: made a deacon during Advent 1959 (20 December) by Robert Stannard, Dean of Rochester (and assistant bishop), at Rochester Cathedral,[4] and ordained a priest the following Advent (18 December 1960), by Russell White, Bishop of Tonbridge, at Bexley (St Mary's) Parish Church.

On his return to England from Australia in 2003 he served for eighteen months as full-time parish priest of St Michael's, Amberley (with North Stoke, Parham, Wiggonholt, and Greatham) in Sussex, before retiring to Devon where he was an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Exeter.

[3] Silk died at a Torquay hospital on 20 September 2023, following a fall the previous day.