Fr. Robin was born in December of 1939 and raised in Marshall Township, Pennsylvania. He served in the U.S. Army from 1958 to 1961, and then worked for fifteen years for J&L Steel. He attended Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut, and on May 20, 1983, was ordained a priest for the Catholic Diocese of Saint John, New Brunswick, in Canada. Fr. Robin eventually got the opportunity to return to Pittsburgh, and in 1991 began to work as a priest within the Diocese of Pittsburgh. In 2006, he became parochial vicar at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish. As part of St. Raphael the Archangel Parish, he the remains in residence and helps with weekend Masses.