Rob Martin (bishop)

Robert David Markland (Rob) Martin (born 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]