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 Trinity College, Cambridge and Trinity College, Bristol.[3] He was ordained deacon in 1991, 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[]
- ^ Conger, George (2 February 2008). "Somerset vicar to be Kenyan bishop: CEN". Conger. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ^ "Kenyan bishop set for special visit to Ashover". The Star. 28 December 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ^ "Robert David Markland Martin". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ ACK News
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