Donald William Bradley Robinson (9 November 19227 September 2018) was an Australian

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in the

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. He was Archbishop of Sydney from 1982 to 1992.

Family and education

Robinson was born in

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on 9 November 1922, the son of Richard Bradley Robinson, sometime Archdeacon of North Sydney. His first year of secondary school studies was at

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; he was then educated at

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, the

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and

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. His undergraduate studies were interrupted by service in

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."Meet the assistant bishops"
in ''Southern Cross'', September 1981. pp. 28–29 His niece is the retired actress and working psychologist Belinda Bauer.

Ordained ministry

Robinson was

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in 1950 by

Howard Mowll Howard West Kilvinton Mowll (1890–1958) was the Anglican Bishop of Western China from 1925 to 1933, and Archbishop of Sydney from 1933 until his death in 1958. Biography Mowll was born in Dover and attended Dover College until 1903 and l ...

, Archbishop of Sydney, and began his ministry with curacies at St Matthew's, Manly and St Philip's Church, Sydney. He was then a lecturer and vice-principal at Moore College and later at Sydney University until 1973 when he became the

Bishop of Parramatta The assistant bishops of Sydney are the assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, Australia. They each assist the Archbishop of Sydney by maintaining delegated episcopal oversight over a particular geographical area. Prior to the form ...

. He was consecrated a bishop on 25 January 1973 at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney. Nine years later he was elected as Archbishop of Sydney and the Metropolitan of New South Wales. Michael Jensen argues that, along with that of Bill Dumbrell and Graeme Goldsworthy, Robinson's work "has been crucial for shaping how Sydney Anglicans think about and preach from the Bible." Robinson was made an

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in 1984.

References

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