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Kenneth Raymond Good (born 1 November 1952) is a retired Church of Ireland (Anglican) Bishop who served as Bishop of Derry and Raphoe from 11 June 2002 - 31 May 2019. [1]
Born on 1 November 1952 [2] and educated at Trinity College, Dublin he was ordained in 1977. [3] He began his career as a curate in Belfast after which he was chaplain and head of Religious Education at Ashton School, Cork.
In 1984 he became rector of Dunganstown; and in 1990 of Shankill Parish, Lurgan. His final appointment before elevation to the episcopate was as Archdeacon of Dromore.
Good was elected bishop of Derry and Raphoe on 13 March and consecrated on 11 June 2002. He went on to serve in the diocese for seventeen years and engaged heavily in the wider social and political life of the diocese. In his time as bishop he brought the Church of Ireland Synod to the city for the first time. [4]
Good announced his retirement in October 2018 and officially retired from the post in May 2019 and one of his last public interventions was an appeal to politicians to restore the devolved assembly in Northern Ireland. [5]
Bishop Good developed a strong working relationship and personal friendship with Bishop Donal McKeown and after his retirement Ken Good's 'strategic leadership to the local church to engage fully with the community throughout his ordained ministry, most of which was in the complex community of Northern Ireland" was recognised when both men were awarded a prestigious peacemaking prize. [6] [7]
He was succeeded by The Right Rev’d. Andrew Forster, Archdeacon of Ardboe in the diocese of Armagh who was elected as the new Bishop in August 2019 and ordained in St Patrick's Cathedral Armagh on 8 December 2019.[ citation needed ] He was then enthroned in the two diocesan cathedrals in St Columb's in Derry and St Eunan's Cathedral Raphoe at the beginning of January 2020.
Bishop Good praised his successor and described Bishop Andrew as the perfect choice for the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe and had confidence that he will serve the Diocese Faithfully and very well.
St Columb's Cathedral in the walled city of Derry, Northern Ireland, is the cathedral church and episcopal see of the Church of Ireland's Diocese of Derry and Raphoe. It is also the parish church of Templemore. It is dedicated to Saint Columba, the Irish monk who established a Christian settlement in the area before being exiled from Ireland and introducing Christianity to Scotland and northern England. Built after the Reformation in Ireland, St Columb's is the first Anglican cathedral to have been built in Britain and Ireland after the Reformation and was the first non-Roman Catholic cathedral to be built in Western Europe.
Edward Kevin Daly was an Irish Roman Catholic priest and author. He served as the Bishop of Derry from 1974 to 1993. Daly took part in several civil rights marches and events during the Troubles. He came to wider attention during Bloody Sunday in January 1972, waving a blood-stained white handkerchief as he escorted a group carrying a mortally wounded protestor after British troops opened fire on demonstrators.
Dónal McKeown is a Roman Catholic prelate from Northern Ireland who has served as Bishop of Derry since 2014.
Séamus Hegarty, D.D. was an Irish Catholic prelate. He served as Bishop of Raphoe from 1982 to 1994, then as Bishop of Derry from 1994 to 2011.
The Diocese of Raphoe is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland. It is one of eight suffragan dioceses in the inter-Irish primatial ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Armagh.
Philip Boyce, OCD, was Bishop of Raphoe from 1 October 1995 until 2017.
The Diocese of Derry is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church which straddles the international frontier between the Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh. The diocese was established in the year 1158. The diocese consists of almost fifty parishes and some number of religious congregations have houses in various parts of the diocese.
St Eugene's Cathedral is the Roman Catholic cathedral located in Derry, Northern Ireland. It is the "Mother Church" for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Derry, as well as the parish Church of the parish of Templemore.
Daniel McGettigan (1815–1887) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served Bishop of Raphoe from 1861 to 1870 and Archbishop of Armagh from 1870 to 1887.
The Diocese of Derry and Raphoe is a diocese of the Church of Ireland in the north-west of Ireland. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh. Its geographical remit straddles two civil jurisdictions: in Northern Ireland, it covers all of County Londonderry and large parts of County Tyrone while in the Republic of Ireland it covers County Donegal.
The Bishop of Derry and Raphoe is the Church of Ireland Ordinary of the united Diocese of Derry and Raphoe in the Province of Armagh.
The Bishop of Derry is an episcopal title which takes its name after the monastic settlement originally founded at Daire Calgach and later known as Daire Colm Cille, Anglicised as Derry. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with another bishopric.
James Mehaffey was Bishop of Derry and Raphoe of the Church of Ireland from 1980 to 2002.
The Dean of Armagh in the Church of Ireland is the dean of the Anglican St Patrick's Cathedral, the cathedral of the Diocese of Armagh and the metropolitan cathedral of the Province of Armagh, located in the town of Armagh.
The Dean of Derry is based at St Columb's Cathedral, Derry in the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe in the Church of Ireland.
Eamon Columba Martin KC*HS is an Irish Catholic prelate from Northern Ireland who has served as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland since 2014.
Alexander Aloysius "Alan" McGuckian SJ is a Roman Catholic prelate and theologian from Northern Ireland who has served as Bishop of Raphoe since 2017.
Robert Stephen Miller is a Church of Ireland priest.
Andrew James Forster is an Irish Anglican Bishop. He is currently Serving as Bishop of Derry and Raphoe since 8 December 2019.
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