John Goddard see his life as a pilgrimage. It has taken him into Anglican orders, first as an Anglo-Catholic priest and as the Anglican Bishop of Burnley. Then in May 2021 his pilgrimage took a more radical, albeit logical, course.
Unable personally to resolve questions about the exercise of authority within the Church of England, he became a Roman Catholic, and was received into the church in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool at the hands of Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Williams.
