Peter D. Robinson

Peter D. Robinson (born May 22, 1969 in Scunthorpe ) is Bishop of the United Episcopal Church of North America and Rector of St. Paul's Anglican Church of Prescott, Arizona .

Life

Robinson was the son of David Robinson (1944-2008) and Mary E. Robinson (born Harrison 1946-). He grew up in Barton Waterside , Barton-on-Humber , Lincolnshire and attended Castledyke Primary School and Baysgarth Comprehensive School . He graduated from the College of Ripon and York St John in 1991 with a BA (Hons) degree in History and Theology from the University of Leeds .

After a brief period in the Church of England , he joined the Anglican Catholic Church (ACC) and attended Holyrood Seminary in 1993-4, where he was tutored by David Gregson and John Charles, FODC, who later became the Primate of the Anglican Catholic Church . He was ordained a deacon on July 3, 1994 by Leslie Hamlett (Bishop of the Missionary Diocese of England and Wales, ACC) and a priest on December 10, 1995 by John Whiting (Bishop of Silchester, Traditional Church of England). After a short stay in the Free Church of England , he served in the Church of Ireland (Traditional Rite) (1997-2000) and then in the Anglican Church in America (2000-2007) before joining the United Episcopal Church of North America ( UECNA) joined in October 2007.

He married Denise Krogh on November 13, 1999.

Robinson was Minister of Providence Chapel in Barton-on-Humber, Lincs (1995-1999), Interim Rector of St. Andrew in Los Alamitos (2000/2001) and Rector of St. Paul's Anglican Church in Prescott (since 2002). Robinson also served as Examining Chaplain in the Diocese of the West of the ACA from 2001 to 2007, as President of the Diocesan Standing Committee from 2003 to 2007, and as Area Dean of Arizona from 2003 to 2007. He is also a longtime member of the Prayer Book Society and contributed articles to her magazine "Mandate" on the two former bishops John Henry Hobart and Richard Channing Moore .

Robinson was elected auxiliary bishop on October 29, 2008 at the 9th General Assembly of UECNA in Coshocton . His episcopal ordination took place on January 10, 2009 at Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Louis by the Presiding Bishop of UECNA Stephen C. Reber ; Co- consecrators were Presley Hutchens of the Anglican Catholic Church , Bishop of New Orleans and William Wiygul of the Anglican Province of Christ the King , Bishop of the Southeastern States.

In November 2009 he became bishop of the Missionary District of the West. He continues to serve as Rector of St. Paul's Anglican Church . He also acts as the UECNA's liaison in its relationships with the Anglican Catholic Church and the Anglican Province of Christ the King, with which it has been in full communion since 2008.

Web links

• The Right Rev. Peter D. Robinson, Rector of St. Paul's Anglican Church, Prescott