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Robin Eames (Robert Henry Alexander Eames) was born on 27 April, 1936 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, is an Anglican Primate of All Ireland. Discover Robin Eames's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Born 27 April 1936
Birthday 27 April
Birthplace Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Nationality Ireland

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1936

Robert Henry Alexander Eames, Baron Eames, (born 27 April 1936) is an Anglican bishop and life peer, who served as Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1986 to 2006.

Eames was born in 1936, the son of a Methodist minister.

His early years were spent in Larne, with the family later moving to Belfast.

1947

He was educated at the city's Belfast Royal Academy and Methodist College Belfast (from 1947 – 1955) before going on to study at the Queen's University of Belfast, graduating LL.B. (Upper Second Class Honours) in 1960 and earning a Ph.D. degree in ecclesiastical law and history in 1963.

During his undergraduate course at Queen's, one of his philosophy lecturers was his future Roman Catholic counterpart, Cahal Daly.

1960

Turning his back on legal studies for ordination in the Church of Ireland, Eames embarked on a three-year course at the divinity school of Trinity College, Dublin in 1960, but found the course "intellectually unsatisfying".

1963

In 1963 he was appointed curate assistant at Bangor Parish Church, becoming rector of St Dorothea's in Belfast three years later.

1966

In the same year, 1966, he married Christine Daly.

During his time at St Dorothea's, in the Braniel and Tullycarnet area of east Belfast, he developed a "coffee bar ministry" among young people but The Troubles interrupted.

During this time he rescued a Catholic girl from a loyalist mob who had set her family home on fire.

1974

He turned down the opportunity to become dean of Cork and in 1974 was appointed rector of St Mark's in Dundela in east Belfast, a church with strong family links to C. S. Lewis.

1975

On 9 May 1975, at the age of 38, he was elected bishop of the cross-border Diocese of Derry and Raphoe – in a groundbreaking move, he invited his similarly young Catholic counterpart, Edward Daly, to his consecration on 9 June.

1980

Eames was translated five years later, on 30 May 1980, to the Diocese of Down and Dromore.

He was elected to Down and Dromore on 23 April and that election confirmed 20 May 1980.

1986

In 1986, he became the 14th Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland since the Church of Ireland's break with Rome.

It was an appointment that caused some level of astonishment among other church leaders.

1996

Drumcree Church, a rural parish near Portadown, became the site of a major political incident in 1996, when the annual Orangemen's march was banned from returning to the centre of Portadown via the Nationalist Garvaghy road after attending worship at Drumcree parish church.

This decision was made by the Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and not the Northern Ireland parades commission who at this time did not have authority to prohibit parades existing only as an advisory body.

Public unrest and violence escalated and over the next three summers the situation was unstable with other parades coming under first police and later commission sanction.

Archbishop Eames, as diocesan bishop and civil leader found himself immersed in the search for a resolution to the issue.

Within the wider Church of Ireland there was unease as it is a broad church in theology and politics and has within its congregations nationalists in the south and unionists in the north.

Eames, along with the rector of Drumcree, had to navigate this wider political and social controversy and sought political assistance for his efforts to diffuse tension.

Some bishops in the Republic of Ireland called for Eames to close the parish church.

Notable among these was Bishop John Neill who later became Archbishop of Dublin.

Eames refused to do so, believing this action could have precipitated greater unrest and possibly bloodshed.

Eames described the Drumcree controversy as his "own personal Calvary".

Eames was, for many years, a significant figure within the general Anglican Communion.

2003

In 2003, the self-styled 'divine optimist' was appointed Chairman of the Lambeth Commission on Communion, which examined significant challenges to unity in the Anglican Communion.

2004

The Commission published its report ("the Windsor Report") on 18 October 2004.

2006

At the Church of Ireland General Synod in 2006 he announced his intention to retire on 31 December 2006.

Church law permitted him to continue as primate until the age of 75 but he resigned, in good health, at the age of 69.

A tribute to him in The Irish Times, assessing his years of public ministry and likely legacy noted that "behind the warm smile, many know there is a man of steel."

2007

On 10 January 2007, the 11 serving bishops of the Church of Ireland, meeting at St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, elected Alan Harper, Bishop of Connor, as Eames's successor.

In mid 2007 he was appointed co-chairman, along with Denis Bradley, of the Consultative Group on the Past in Northern Ireland.

This aimed to work out how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, especially as it affects the victims of the Troubles and their relatives.

2008

Sources close to the Group created some controversy in early 2008 by suggesting that the Troubles could be officially classified as a "war".

Relatives of security force victims argued that this would demean the sacrifice of their relatives during the darkest days of the Troubles.

Their relatives were often shot when off duty and unable to defend themselves; their opponents were not obeying the rules of war as commonly understood.

Many of the final recommendations were derailed over the proposed payment of a pension or stipend to victims.

2009

The Group issued its report in January 2009.