Richard Bland Mitchell (July 26, 1887 - March 7, 1961) was the eighth bishop of Arkansas in The Episcopal Church and the thirteenth chancellor of Sewanee: The University of the South.

Mitchell was ordained deacon on June 12, 1912, at St Luke's Chapel in Sewanee, Tennessee, and priest on June 24, 1913, in the Church of the Incarnation in West Point, Mississippi, on both occasions by Bishop Theodore DuBose Bratton of Mississippi.

In 1929, Mitchell became rector of St Mary's-on-the-Highlands Church in Birmingham, Alabama, where he remained until 1938.

[5] His episcopacy is characterized with an increased financial stability, members, missions, and parishes.

He also served as chancellor of the University of the South and chairman of its board of trustees from 1950 to 1956.