Rob Martin (bishop)

Robert David Markland (Rob) Martin (b 1949) was the first Bishop of Marsabit in the Anglican Church of Kenya.[1][2]

Martin was educated at Woodcote House School and Bradfield College. For university he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and Trinity College, Bristol.[3] He was ordained deacon in 1991, priest in 1992 and bishop in 2008. After a curacy in Kingswood he was Vicar of Frome from 1995 until his appointment as bishop. He was consecrated in March 2008, to serve as suffragan Bishop of Marsabit[4] mission area of the All Saints' Cathedral Diocese; with the area's erection into the Anglican Diocese of Marsabit on 24 July 2011, he was installed as diocesan bishop. He retired back to the UK in 2016.[5]

References

1. Conger, George (2 February 2008). "Somerset vicar to be Kenyan bishop: CEN". Conger. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
2. "Kenyan bishop set for special visit to Ashover". The Star. 28 December 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
3. "Robert David Markland Martin". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
4. "From Frome to a Kenyan diocese". Church Times. No. 7557. 18 January 2008. p. 8. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 14 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
5. ACK News