He completed his Doctor of Philosophy at Duke University in 1945 with a dissertation titled The Chronicle of Salimbene of Parma: a Thirteenth Century Christian Synthesis.
[3] Woodbridge served as pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Flushing, New York for several years before following the call to become a missionary to French Cameroons in 1932.
Just a few years later, he was appointed by one of his seminary mentors, John Gresham Machen, to serve as secretary general for the newly formed Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions.
[1] In 1947, he was one of the original prospects recruited for the newly founded Fuller Theological Seminary, and though he initially declined the offer, in 1950 he finally joined the faculty.
[4] Woodbridge remained a staunch separatist and was critical of movements such as Billy Graham's preaching campaigns,[5] and Campus Crusade's Four Spiritual Laws.