Arthur Goodwin Hudson


Arthur William Goodwin Hudson was a coadjutor bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney.
He studied at the London College of Divinity and was ordained in the Church of England: deaconed in Advent 1940 at St Aldate's, Oxford and priested the next Advent at Rochester Cathedral — both times by Christopher Chavasse, Bishop of Rochester. With the surname Hudson, he began his career as a Curate at St Paul, Chatham; by 28 May 1943, he had the surname Goodwin-Hudson and was Vicar of Good Easter. From 1945 to 1948 he was Headmaster at Windsor School, Santiago and then the incumbent at St James, Holloway until 1955. After a similar post at Woodford Wells he was appointed to serve the Sydney diocese as coadjutor bishop; he was consecrated a bishop by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, on Lady Day 1960, at Westminster Abbey. After four years based in Point Piper, New South Wales he returned to England and became Vicar of St Paul's, Portman Square.