John Donald Wilkinson

John Donald Wilkinson, FSA (28 March 1929, in Wimbledon, England – 13 January 2018, in London) was an Anglican priest and Bible scholar.

[1][4] In 1982, Wilkinson was awarded a PhD by the Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London)[1][4] for a thesis[7] which he subsequently developed into a book.

[8] He was trained for ordination in the Church of England at Rippon College Cuddesdon near Oxford,[1] subsequently ordained as deacon (1954)[1] and priest (1957).

[5] He spent the majority of his career at the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem (BSAJ), where he was elected to their Council (1976), and from 1979 to 1984 was the director, in succession to Crystal M.

[9] In 1984, Wilkinson moved to the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research at Tantur, near Bethlehem, and then in 1985 to the Center for Byzantine and Mediaeval Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC.

[1] In 1975 he became the Bishop's Director of Clergy Training and curate-in-charge of Holy Trinity, Kensington Gore, and All Saints, Ennismore Gardens (now the Russian Orthodox Cathedral),[1] in 1980 he was elected to the fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

In 1959 he arranged a one-off exhibition on Type and Theology at the Monotype building in Fetter Lane titled 'Print - a Voice of the Church'.

[12][13][11] In 1995, in association with Mzia Ebanoidze, Wilkinson started charity work in support of Georgian scholars, enabling numerous academic projects to see completion and publication.