Donald Robinson (bishop)

Donald William Bradley Robinson AO TD (born 9 November 1922) was the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney from 1982 to 1993.

Robinson was born in Sydney on 9 November 1922, the son of an archdeacon. His first year of secondary school studies was at North Sydney Boys High School. He was then educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School, the University of Sydney and Queens' College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1950 and began his ministry with curacies at St Matthew’s Manly and St Philip's Church, Sydney. He was then a lecturer at Moore College and later at Sydney University until 1973 when he became the Bishop of Parramatta. Nine years later he was elected as Archbishop of Sydney and the Metropolitan of New South Wales.