Career
He is an Anglo-Catholic and promotes a traditional catholic understanding of ordination to the priesthood and episcopate — id est (that is) he rejects the orders of women who are priests or bishops. Goodall was born in 1961 in Yorkshire, England. He trained for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.
He 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 ecumencial 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, during a service at Westminster Abbey.
