Robert John Freeman (born 26 October 1952)[2] is a British Anglican bishop.
From 2011 until his 2018 retirement, he served as the Bishop of Penrith in the Church of England Diocese of Carlisle.
[3] Following his diaconal ordination in 1977,[2] Freeman's first appointment was as a curate at St John's Church, Blackpool,[4] in the Diocese of Blackburn, from 1977 to 1981.
During that period he was Rural Dean of Christianity South from 1995 to 1998 and National Advisor in Evangelism for the Archbishops' Council from 1999 to 2003.
His interests include time spent with family, computer technology and internet development, walking and travelling, classic Motown, electric blues and rock music, computer games, reluctant gardening, reading crime and action-adventure fiction.