Christopher James Gossage Robinson (10 June 1903 – 24 February 1988) was Bishop of Lucknow from 1947 to 1962, when he was

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to be the Bishop of Bombay until his retirement in 1970. Robinson was born into a distinguished family and educated at Marlborough College and Christ's College, Cambridge, After graduating in 1926 he went to India to be on the teaching staff of

St Stephen's College, Delhi St. Stephen's College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi, widely regarded as one of the oldest and most prestigious colleges for arts and sciences in India. It was established in 1881 by the Cambridge Mission to Delhi. The college ...

. He returned to England in 1929 to be

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform ...

. His first appointment was as a Curate at St Mary's Portsea, after which he returned to

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, where he was a leading light in the

Cambridge Mission to Delhi The Cambridge Mission to Delhi was an Anglican Christian missionary initiative to India in the mid 19th and early 20th centuries led by graduates of the University of Cambridge. Individual members of the mission community are credited with helpin ...

, (

Vicar A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English pre ...

of St James's

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders ...

, then of St Thomas'd

New Delhi New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament Ho ...

'' Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ) until his ordination to the episcopate. He retired to Delhi in 1970. He had never married.

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