Donald Robinson (bishop)

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| honorific_prefix = The Most Reverend

| name = Donald Robinson

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| diocese = Sydney

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| term = {{start date|1982}}{{endash}}{{end date|1992}}

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| predecessor = Marcus Loane

| successor = Harry Goodhew

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| birth_name = Donald William Bradley Robinson

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|11|09|df=y}}

| birth_place = Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2018|09|07|1922|11|09}}

| death_place = North Turramurra, New South Wales, Australia

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| nationality = Australian

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| spouse = Marie Robinson (née Taubman)

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| education = {{unbulleted list|North Sydney Boys High School|Sydney Church of England Grammar School}}

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Donald William Bradley Robinson {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} (9 November 1922{{snd}}7 September 2018{{cite web |last1=Powell |first1=Russell |title=Passing of a leader who made 'immeasurable' contribution |url=https://sydneyanglicans.net/news/passing-of-a-leader-who-made-immeasurable-contribution |website=Sydney Anglicans |accessdate=7 September 2018}}) was an Australian bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia. He was Archbishop of Sydney from 1982 to 1992.{{cite web |url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/490588?lookfor=subject:%22Robinson,%20D.%20W.%20B.%20-%20(Donald%20William%20Bradley),%20-%201922-%22&offset=1&max=2 |title=Biographical cuttings on Donald William Bradley Robinson, Most Reverend, Archbishop of Sydney. 1982-1993, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals |publisher=National Library of Australia |date= |access-date= }}

Family and education

Robinson was born in Lithgow, New South Wales on 9 November 1922, the son of Richard Bradley Robinson, sometime Archdeacon of North Sydney. His first year of secondary school studies was at North Sydney Boys High School;1955 Societas Magazine of Moore Theological College contains a biography of Donald William Bradley Robinson. p. 17 states: "Leaving Chatswood School, he commenced his secondary education at North Sydney Boys' High School. It was here that Donald started Greek - this was to prove most valuable in the years to come. .... The next year found D.W.B. at Sydney Church of England Grammar School, entering on the Archbishop's Scholarship for Clergy sons." he was then educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School, the University of Sydney{{cite book |title=Who's Who 2008 |location=London |publisher=A & C Black |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7136-8555-8}} and Queens' College, Cambridge. His undergraduate studies were interrupted by service in World War II.[http://www.sydneyanglicanarchives.com.au/img/Bishops_SouthernCrossSep1981.jpg "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 ordained in 1950 by Howard Mowll, Archbishop of Sydney, and began his ministry with curacies at St Matthew's, Manly{{Cite web |url=http://www.stmattsmanly.org.au/index.php?v=Home |title=St Matthew's Manly website |access-date=3 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323063039/http://www.stmattsmanly.org.au/index.php?v=Home |archive-date=23 March 2010 |url-status=dead }} and St Philip's Church, Sydney.{{cite book |title=Crockford's Clerical Directory |year=1975–76 |location=Lambeth |publisher=Church House |isbn=0-19-200008-X}} He was then a lecturer and vice-principal at Moore College[http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/moore_college Dictionary of Sydney]{{cite web |url=https://www.moore.edu.au/library/about/ |title=About the Donald Robinson Library |work=Donald Robinson Library |publisher=Moore College |date= |access-date=11 April 2018 }} and later at Sydney University until 1973 when he became the Bishop of Parramatta. 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."{{cite book|last1=Jensen|first1=Michael P.|author-link=Michael Jensen (theologian)|title=Sydney Anglicanism: An Apology|date=2012|publisher=Wipf and Stock|page=30|isbn=9781610974653|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bx9NAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30|accessdate=25 September 2017}}

Robinson was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1984.{{cite web |title=The Most Reverend Donald William Bradley ROBINSON |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/885812 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdate=2020-11-06}}