A. Robert Hirschfeld

A. Robert Hirschfeld is a bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States. In 2013 he became the tenth and current bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire.

Hirschfeld graduated from Dartmouth College in 1983. He completed a master's degree at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale in 1991.

Hirschfeld was ordained in the Episcopal Church (United States) on January 18, 1992. He took a post as vice chaplain at Christ Church in New Haven, Connecticut. He was then the pastor of Grace Church in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Hirschfeld was elected bishop coadjutor the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire on May 19, 2012. On August 4, 2012, he was consecrated as a bishop in Concord, New Hampshire by Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop. Since 2013, he has served as diocesan bishop, and replaced the previous bishop, Gene Robinson, on his retirement in January 2013.

Hirschfeld is married to Polly Ingraham, and the couple have three children.