Jonathan Goodall

From 2013 to 2021, he was Bishop of Ebbsfleet, a suffragan bishop who is the provincial episcopal visitor in the western half of the Province of Canterbury for those "within the spectrum of Anglican teaching and tradition" who are "unable to receive the ministry of women as bishops or priests". He was ordained a Catholic priest on 12 March 2022.

The Reverend Jonathan Goodall
Church	Catholic Church Church of England (formerly)
Appointed	25 February 2022
Other post(s)	Bishop of Ebbsfleet, Church of England (2013–2021)
Orders
Ordination	1990 (Anglican priest) 2022 (Catholic priest)
Consecration	25 September 2013 by Justin Welby
Personal details
Born	1961 (age 62–63)
Nationality	British
Denomination	Roman Catholicism Anglicanism (formerly)
Spouse	Sarah Hicks ​ (m. 1987)​
Children	2
Alma mater	Royal Holloway, University of London

Goodall was born in 1961 in Yorkshire, England. He studied music at Royal Holloway College, University of London, before working in publishing. He trained for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, an evangelical Anglican theological college.

He was ordained a deacon at Petertide 1989 (2 July) at St Mary the Virgin's Church, Aylesbury, by Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford. He was ordained a priest the Petertide following (1 July 1990) at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, also by Richard Harries. Goodall served his title in the Bicester Team Ministry from 1989 to 1992; in the latter two years he was also assistant chaplain at HMP Bullingdon. He was a minor canon and sacrist of Westminster Abbey from 1992 to 1998, after which he served as research assistant and chaplain to the bishops of Gibraltar until 2005. From 2005 until his ordination and consecration to the episcopate he was chaplain and ecumenical secretary to the archbishops of Canterbury.

Episcopal ministry

On 2 August 2013, Goodall was announced as the next Bishop of Ebbsfleet, the provincial episcopal visitor (PEV) for the Province of Canterbury. On 25 September 2013, he was consecrated a bishop by Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.

Goodall was a member of the Council of Bishops of The Society.

On 3 September 2021, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, accepted Goodall's resignation from the See of Ebbsfleet following his decision to seek "full communion" with the Catholic Church after a "long period of prayer".^{[full citation needed]} Goodall is the second Bishop of Ebbsfleet who resigned in order to become a Roman Catholic. He was received into the Catholic Church at Archbishop’s House, Westminster, on 8 September 2021.^{[citation needed]}

Goodall was ordained a Catholic priest on 12 March 2022 by Cardinal Vincent Nichols at Westminster Cathedral. He is incardinated in the Diocese of Westminster and is parish priest of St William of York Catholic Church, Stanmore.

Goodall married Sarah Hicks at Bradford, West Yorkshire, in 1987. They have two children; Thomas (born 1989) and Anna-Mary (born 1994).

• Mr Jonathan Goodall (1961–1989)
• The Reverend Jonathan Goodall (1989–2013)
• The Right Reverend Jonathan Goodall (2013–2021)
• Mr Jonathan Goodall (2021–2022)
• The Reverend Jonathan Goodall (2022–present)