Early Life, Ministry and Academic Career
Robinson was educated at Marlborough College and at Jesus College) at the University of Cambridge.
He studied for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge and his first position was as a curate at St Matthew's Bristol. After this he was chaplain of Wells Theological College. He then became a Fellow and Dean at Clare College, Cambridge and a lecturer in divinity at Cambridge University until his ordination to the episcopate.
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