Background
Goodhew was born in Sydney and educated at the University of Wollongong.
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Harry Goodhew
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He was ordained in 1958 and began his ministry with curacies at Street Matthew’s Bondi and Street Bede’s Beverly Hills. Later he held incumbencies at Street Paul’s Carlingford and Street Stephen"s, Coorparoo. In 1976 he was appointed a canon of Street Michael’s Cathedral, Wollongong and in 1979 Archdeacon of Wollongong.
He was Bishop of Wollongong from 1982 to 1993.
In 1993 he was elected Archbishop of Sydney and the Metropolitan of New South Wales, retiring in 2001. As archbishop, Goodhew promoted the Archbishop"s Vision for Growth founded by Donald Robinson, his predecessor.
While archbishop, in order to ease the tensions involved in the debate over women"s ordination that had occurred under his predecessor Donald Robinson, Goodhew placed a moratorium on discussing the issue for a time, a move strongly criticised by the Movement for the Ordination of Women. Goodhew maintained a support for the ordination of women and gave his blessing to women who had left the Diocese of Sydney to be ordained elsewhere.
