Pioneering Principal Dies in Barbados: CEN 1.11.08 p 4. January 12, 2008
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The former principal of the Church of England’s first theological institute focused on Black Anglican concerns, the Rt. Rev. Sehon Goodridge, has died in a Barbados Hospital on Dec 28 at the age of 70.
Bishop Goodridge was the first principal of Simon the Cyrene Theological Institute in Wandsworth, a pre-theological training institute for ordinands and lay workers specially designed to serve Black Anglicans in the UK.
Inaugurated by Archbishop Robert Runcie at a memorial service at St. Anne’s Church in Wandsworth in April 1990, the institute provided placements and pastoral studies units for white and black ordinands and was an initiative of the Black Clergy Association.
Dr. Goodridge, who had served as principal of Codrington College—the Church of the Province of the West Indies primary clergy training college, led the school from 1990 until his election as Bishop of the Windward Islands in 1994.
He was also a warden and a counselor of the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus. Bishop Goodridge is survived by his wife and three children.
My family and I are sorry to hear of Uncle Sehons death and would like to pay our respects to the family in person.Could my email address be passed to Stephen,Rachael & Elizabeth,I am the adopted grandson of Prof.Harry A.E.Sawyerr and lived in Rawle Flats in the 1970’s and 1980’s.