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Master of the Temple

Robin Griffith-Jones

Robin Griffith-Jones was born in London, England, in 1956, and as Master of the Temple holds one of the historic positions in the Anglican Church. Robin was educated at Oxford and at Cambridge Universities, and before ordination worked at Christie’s (the fine art auctioneers), with Mother Teresa’s sisters in India, and with the long-term homeless in London. As a priest he has served as Curate in outer Liverpool and as Chaplain at Lincoln College, Oxford; at Lincoln he occupied the rooms in which John Wesley started his “Holy Club”, the seed from which grew the world-wide Methodist Church.

As Master of the Temple Robin serves a large number of London’s lawyers, in one of the city’s most ancient churches and helped by one of its most famous choirs. Robin has written The Four Witnesses, on the four gospels (Harper SF, 2000); The Gospel according to Paul (Harper SF, 2004); and The Da Vinci Code and the Secrets of the Temple (SCM and Eerdmans, 2006). He is now working on Mary Magdalene: The Woman whom Jesus loved (Harper SF, due 2007).

Robin has been featured on the ABC special on St Paul (The Word and the Witness) and will appear in CNN’s next programme on early Christianity, After Jesus: The Birth of Christianity.Robin has appeared in several TV-specials on The Da Vinci Code, produced by CNN, NBC, ABC and the BBC. His lecture on The Da Vinci Code is available as a webcast on www.beliefnet.com.

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