Robin Gill (priest)

Gill was born on 18 July 1944.[1] He was educated at Westminster School, an all-boys public school within the precincts of Westminster Abbey.[1] He studied theology and trained for holy orders at King's College, London, graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity (BD) degree and the Associateship of King's College (AKC) in 1966.[2] He remained at King's to undertake postgraduate research, and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1969.[1] He later studied at the University of Birmingham, graduating with a Master of Social Sciences (MSocSc) degree in 1972.[2]

Gill was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1968 and as a priest in 1969.[2] From 1968 to 1971, he served his curacy at St Andrew's Church, Rugby in the Diocese of Coventry.[1] From 1971 to 1972, he was a lecturer at Newton Theological College in Papua New Guinea.[3] In 1972, he joined the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in Christian ethics.[1] Additionally, he was priest-in-charge of St Philip's and St James', Edinburgh from 1973 to 1975 in the Diocese of Edinburgh and priest-in-charge of the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Ford, Northumberland from 1975 to 1987 in the Diocese of Newcastle.[2] He served as associate dean of Edinburgh's faculty of theology from 1985 to 1988.[3][1] He was promoted to senior lecturer in 1986.[1]

In 1988, Gill was appointed William Leech Research Professor/Professorial Fellow in Applied Theology at the University of Newcastle.[3][1] He was also priest-in-charge of St Mary and All Souls, Coldstream, in the Diocese of Edinburgh during this time.[2] In 1992, he moved to the University of Kent having been appointed the first Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology.[3] He was made an Honorary Provincial Canon of Canterbury Cathedral in 1992.[1][2][4] He served as Chair of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Medical Ethics Advisory Group between 1993 and 2006.[3] From 1997 to 1998, he was a theological consultant at the 1998 Lambeth Conference.[3][5] From 2003 to 2011, he was additionally an honorary priest-in-charge of All Saints Church, Hollingbourne in the Diocese of Canterbury.[2] He stepped down as Michael Ramsey Professor in 2011 and was appointed Professor of Applied Theology.[3]

On 4 November 2012, Gill was installed as canon theologian of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar in the Diocese in Europe.[6] He retired from the University of Kent in 2014 and was appointed emeritus professor.[3] He has held permission to officiate in the Diocese of Canterbury since 2014.[2] From 2017 to 2020, he was Acting Dean of Gibraltar Cathedral.[7][8]

In 1967, Gill married Jennifer Margaret Sheppard. Together they have two children: one son and one daughter.[1]

• Gill, Robin (1985). A textbook of Christian ethics. Edinburgh: T & T Clark. ISBN 0567291278.
• Gill, Robin (1995). A textbook of Christian ethics (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: T & T Clark. ISBN 978-0567292803.
• Gill, Robin (2006). Health care and Christian ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521857239.
• Gill, Robin (2010). New challenges for Christians: from test-tube babies to euthanasia. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. ISBN 978-0281062805.
• Gill, Robin, ed. (2012). The Cambridge companion to Christian ethics (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107000070.
• Gill, Robin (2014). Textbook of Christian ethics (4th ed.). London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0567621641.
• Gill, Robin (2017). Moral passion and Christian ethics. New Studies in Christian Ethics. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107176829.
• Gill, Robin (2020). Christian ethics: the basics. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-0367331108.