Boak Jobbins
OAM (29 April 19471 September 2012) was an Australian
cleric
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of the
Anglican
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Diocese of Sydney and
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of Sydney.
Early life
Jobbins was born in
Sydney
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,
Australia
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. He studied law at
Sydney University
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and theology at
Moore Theological College
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. He married his wife, Dianne Whalley, in 1972.
Jobbins was ordained in 1972. He is the author of commentaries and co-author of the ''Introduction to the Bible'' textbook for the Moore College Correspondence Course.
Education and ministry
After curacies at Dural and at
Holy Trinity, Adelaide, he was Rector of Mowbray from 1977 to 1983 and rector of Pymble from 1983 to 1992.
For 10 years, until 2002, Jobbins exercised a wide ministry as Dean of Sydney and played a major role in the restoration of the cathedral. He then served as rector of St Mark's Darling Point from 2002 and was made an honorary canon of St Andrew's Cathedral.
In 2001 Jobbins was awarded the
Centenary Medal
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; and in 2003 he was awarded the
Medal of the Order of Australia
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for service to religion, particularly through the Diocese of Sydney and to the community.
Jobbins was succeeded as Dean of Sydney by
Phillip Jensen
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Early life and conversion
J ...
. He died in 2012, aged 65.
See also
*
Anglican Diocese of Sydney
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The diocese goes as far as Lithgow in the wes ...
*
St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney
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References
External links
Obituary in Sydney Anglicans
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Evangelical Anglican clergy
Australian textbook writers
Clergy from Sydney
Moore Theological College alumni
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
University of Sydney alumni
Deans of Sydney
1947 births
2012 deaths