Biography

The Right Rev’d Robert Todd Giffin is the Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the Central and Western States and Rector of Saint Chad's Anglican Church, San Antonio, Texas. He was consecrated a Bishop on 6 October 2012, at the Anglican Church of Saint Andrew the Evangelist in Merrillville, Indiana. On 25 May 2014, he was appointed by Bishop Maternus Kapinga as Ecumenical Canon of the Pro-Cathedral in Kwambe, Diocese of Ruvuma, Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT). He is a cradle Anglican, having been baptized at Saint Dunstan's Episcopal Church, McLean, Virginia, on 10 April 1971. He was educated at Brebeuf Preparatory School in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Culver Summer Naval School in Culver, Indiana. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, and a Master of Divinity degree from Nashotah House Theological Seminary, Nashotah, Wisconsin. He is married to the former Norma Jean Bustamante of San Antonio, Texas. Norma Jean is employed by Chiesi USA (a privately owned Italian pharmaceutical company) as a Senior Hospital Sales Representative. They are the parents of three children: Catherine Elizabeth, Maria Christina, and William Royall Giffin. They reside in San Antonio, Texas. Bishop Giffin is a member of the Pendennis Club (Louisville, Kentucky), a hereditary member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and a Commander (CStJ) of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, where he is an active volunteer on behalf of the U.S. Priory of the Order. 

Bishop Giffin may be contacted by phone at (210) 573-9860 or by email at bishop.giffin@gmail.com