FATHER CRISTOPHER ROBINSON returns for his seventh year as the chaplain for the OLLU Saints Baseball Team. Over the last nine years, volunteering as chaplain for two collegiate baseball programs, he has helped to mentor more than a hundred university graduates, numerous academic all-conference scholars and one Academic All-American. A lifetime advocate for education, Fr. Cristopher has held leadership positions in seven different parishes that have parochial schools as a part of their core mission. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at St. George Episcopal School and also served on the Episcopal Schools Commission for the Diocese of West Texas.

Away from the dugout and the classroom, Fr. Cristopher has led churches whose outreach efforts have impacted the communities around them. Most recently, his congregation hosted the San Antonio Refugee Health Clinic, a collaborative-effort free medical clinic run by UT Health students and faculty. They also were the host site for the International Community Garden and provided space for three congregations of Christians made up of refugees to the United States: New Life Creation Fellowship Church (Nepali), God Inspiration Church (Liberian) and St. Teklehaimanot Eritrean Orthodox Church. They partnered with the San Antonio Food Bank and an in-house team called “Worshippers for Warmth” to provide food and clothing for neighbors in their area. Fr. Cristopher has traveled to Tanzania and Northern Mexico to lead short-term mission trips and has led numerous retreats, camps and conferences for college- and high school-age youth.

A Texas native, Fr. Cristopher earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Rice University, a Master of Science in Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Divinity from The Seminary of the Southwest. Before entering ordained ministry (in the Episcopal Church), he worked as a consulting engineer, specializing in airport design. He has been married to Kristina for 23 years, and they are parents to two sons, Michael (18) and Zachary (11).