Tony Robinson Cleric
Anthony William Robinson (known as Tony; born 25 April 1956) is the current Bishop of Pontefract, area bishop for Wakefield and interim area bishop for Huddersfield in the Diocese of Leeds.He was educated at Bedford Modern. After a period of study at Salisbury and Wells Theological College he was ordained in 1983. His career began with a curacy at St Paul’s Tottenham. He was then Rural Dean of North Leicester and finally (before his consecration to the episcopate on 6 December 2002) Archdeacon of Pontefract.Bishop Tony is also the Patron of Street Angels - Christian Nightlife Initiatives, a post held since 2010.As of late March 2014 he is the only Bishop in the Church of England to have voted in his diocesan synod against new legislation which could enable women to become bishops. In 2014, he became chairman of Forward in Faith, an Anglican movement that opposes the ordination of women and the liberalising of Church attitudes to homosexuality