Editing Robin Eames (section)

==Ministry==
[[File:Lord Eames.jpg|thumb|left|Eames in 2014]]
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". In 1963 he was appointed curate assistant at [[Bangor, County Down|Bangor]] Parish Church, becoming [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] of St Dorothea's in Belfast three years later.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rowan Williams to preach at service for Robin Eames |url=https://www.downanddromore.org/news/2006/11/rowan-williams-to-preach-at-service-for-robin-eames |access-date=2020-10-16 |website=Down & Dromore Diocese |archive-date=18 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818163327/https://www.downanddromore.org/news/2006/11/rowan-williams-to-preach-at-service-for-robin-eames |url-status=live }}</ref>

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 [[Ulster loyalism|loyalist]] mob who had set her family home on fire. He turned down the opportunity to become dean of [[Cork (city)|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]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=About us |url=http://dundela.down.anglican.org/about-us.html |access-date=2020-10-16 |website=ST MARK'S CHURCH OF IRELAND DUNDELA |language=en |archive-date=23 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923184926/http://dundela.down.anglican.org/about-us.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 9 May 1975, at the age of 38, he was elected bishop of the cross-border [[List of Church of Ireland dioceses|Diocese of Derry and Raphoe]] – in a groundbreaking move, he invited his similarly young Catholic counterpart, [[Edward Daly (bishop)|Edward Daly]], to his consecration on 9 June.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ARCHBISHOP EAMES 25 YEARS A BISHOP |url=https://www.ireland.anglican.org/news/1915/archbishop-eames-25-years-a |access-date=2020-10-16 |website=Church of Ireland |archive-date=18 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818163327/https://www.ireland.anglican.org/news/1915/archbishop-eames-25-years-a |url-status=live }}</ref>
Eames was [[translation (ecclesiastical)|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. In 1986, he became the 14th Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland since the Church of Ireland's break with Rome.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Robin Eames Enthroned |url=https://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21215409-robin-eames-enthroned |access-date=2020-10-16 |website=RTÉ Archives |language=en |archive-date=23 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023173414/https://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21215409-robin-eames-enthroned/ |url-status=live }}</ref>  It was an appointment that caused some level of astonishment among other church leaders.<ref>{{Cite news |title='Cold fish' Robin Eames unwanted by some as Archbishop of Armagh, papers show |language=en-GB |work=Belfast Telegraph |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/cold-fish-robin-eames-unwanted-by-some-as-archbishop-of-armagh-papers-show-35330040.html |access-date=2020-10-16 |issn=0307-1235 |archive-date=10 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410175359/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/cold-fish-robin-eames-unwanted-by-some-as-archbishop-of-armagh-papers-show-35330040.html |url-status=live }}</ref>