Biography

The Right Rev’d Robert Todd Giffin CStJ UE, 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 Metropolitan Cathedral in Songea, 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 served as a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, Diocese of Bolivia (Province of the Southern Cone), and the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), where he was a church planter in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Texas. 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 an Executive Hospital Sales Representative. They are the parents of three children: Catherine Elizabeth, Maria Christina, and William Royall Giffin. They reside in San Antonio, Texas.

He was appointed by Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith to serve on the Equal Opportunity Board of the City of Indianapolis, 1996-1998, and is a Board-Certified Chaplain (BCC) of the Spiritual Care Association (SCA, New York City, New York). He is an active member of the Saint John Volunteer Corps (SJVC) and a Commander (CStJ) in the U.S. Priory of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.

Bishop Giffin is a Freeman of the City of London, England, and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders, London. He is the Chaplain of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati, Chaplain-in-Chief of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS), Deputy Chaplain of the Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York, is a descendant member of the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada, and a life member of the Pilgrims of the United States (Pilgrims Society). 

He is first and foremost a Missionary Bishop and looks to advance and expand traditional Anglicanism across all of North America. 

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