Robert Fisher Gibson Jr. (November 22, 1906 - September 21, 1990) was the tenth bishop of Virginia in The Episcopal Church.

[1] Gibson graduated from the Virginia Theological Seminary and University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, at both of which he later taught.

After that he embarked on the commencement of his academic career of teaching church history at Virginia Theological Seminary and later as dean of at Sewanee, The University of the South.

In addition to his diocesan duties, including support for the ordination of women as priests, Bishop Gibson was an outspoken supporter of ecumenism, and served as chairman of the Consultation on Church Union in the 1960s, although their plan to merge eight major Protestant denominations into a 24-million-member church was never consummated.

He remained active in church matters until his death, of a heart attack, in Richmond.