Rob Martin (bishop)

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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]

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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