Donald Robinson

Donald William Bradley Robinson (9 November 19227 September 2018 ) was an Australian bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia. He was Archbishop of Sydney from 1982 to 1993.

Family and education Robinson was born in Lithgow, New South Wales on 9 November 1922, he was then educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School. In 1938 he moved with his family to accommodation provided at Moore Theological College in Newtown.

Robinson's high school Greek studies continued in 1940 at the University of Sydney where he studied Arts, including Latin, Greek and English. His undergraduate studies were interrupted by service in World War II, during which he worked in military intelligence as a traffic analyst in Brisbane and New Guinea. In 1946 he resumed his studies and was elected President of the Sydney University Evangelical Union, serving alongside Vice-President Marie Taubman (the two became engaged later that year).

From 1947–1950, Robinson studied the Theology Tripos at Queens' College, Cambridge where his approach to New Testament exegesis and biblical theology was shaped by C. H. Dodd and C. F. D. Moule. and St Philip's Church, Sydney. He was priested on 21 December 1951.

From 1952, Robinson was then a lecturer and vice-principal at Moore College and concurrently 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. His lectures at Sydney University and Moore College were published as Faith's Framework. Graeme Goldsworthy credits Robinson's teaching with producing a "radical and permanent shift in my thinking" of biblical theology.

Robinson was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1984.

Australia's largest single theological library, at Moore Theological College, Sydney, is named after him.