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Hugh Goodacre

English clergyman

Summary

English clergyman

Field	Value
type	Archbishop
honorific_prefix	The Most Reverend
name	Hugh Goodacre
title	Archbishop of Armagh
Primate of All Ireland
church	Church of Ireland
archdiocese	Armagh
appointed	28 October 1552
term	1552–1553
quashed
predecessor	George Dowdall
successor	George Dowdall
consecration	2 February 1553
consecrated_by	George Browne
birth_date
birth_place
death_date	1 May 1553
death_place	Dublin, Ireland
buried
nationality	English
spouse
profession

Primate of All Ireland Hugh Goodacre (died 1 May 1553) was an English Protestant clergyman, who was briefly Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland.

Life

Nothing is known for certain of his family background or his early life. He was vicar of Shalfleet, Isle of Wight, and chaplain to John Ponet, Bishop of Winchester. According to John Strype he was at first chaplain to Princess Elizabeth, who about 1548 or 1549 procured him a licence to preach from Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, the Lord Protector, recommending him in a letter to William Cecil.

When Archbishop George Dowdall, who was opposed to the Protestant Reformation, retired from Armagh in 1552, Thomas Cranmer recommended Goodacre to Edward VI for the vacant see as 'a wise and well-learned man', and he was appointed by a letter under the privy seal dated 28 October 1552. On 2 February 1553 he was consecrated in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. He died in Dublin on 1 May of the same year. John Bale voiced the suspicion that he had been poisoned by certain Roman Catholic priests whom he had tried to reform. Strype says he was famed for his preaching; none of his writings were published.

References

Strype, John Memorials of Thomas Cranmer, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury Oxford University Press 1840
Sir James Ware Bishops of Ireland Dublin 1739

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