Richard Brendan Higgins KC*HS, USAF (ret)[1] (born February 22, 1944) is an Irish-born American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

[2] On March 9, 1968, Higgins was ordained a priest by Archbishop Luigi Poggi for the Diocese of Sacramento at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome.

[2] In September 1974, Higgins joined the United States Air Force Chaplain Corps.

[2] In 1997, Pope John Paul II named Higgins an honorary prelate of his holiness, with the title of monsignor.

[2] On January 2, 2020, Pope Francis accepted Higgins's resignation as auxiliary bishop of the Military Services, USA, which he submitted on reaching age 75, as required by canon law.