1. John Charles Broadhurst was born on 20 July 1942 and is an English Catholic priest who was formerly the Anglican Bishop of Fulham in the Diocese of London from 1996 to 2010.
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John Broadhurst resigned in order to be received into the Catholic Church and became a priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in 2011.
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John Broadhurst grew up in Hendon and was educated at Owens School in Islington.
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John Broadhurst trained as an Anglican ordinand at King's College London and its postgraduate facility at St Boniface College, Warminster.
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John Broadhurst was made a deacon in 1966 and ordained a priest in 1967.
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John Broadhurst became Area Dean of Brent while at Wembley Park, and East Haringey during his time at Wood Green.
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John Broadhurst was consecrated Bishop of Fulham on 24 September 1996.
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John Broadhurst had "the pastoral care of parishes which are opposed to the ordination of women".
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John Broadhurst was formerly the chairman of Forward in Faith and vice-chairman of the Church Union.
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In October 2010, John Broadhurst publicly stated his intention of being received into the Catholic Church and entering a personal ordinariate for former Anglicans when it was established.
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On 8 November 2010, John Broadhurst announced that he intended leaving the Church of England to become a Catholic.
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John Broadhurst was received into the Catholic Church on 1 January 2011 at Westminster Cathedral.
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John Broadhurst now has 8 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren with another on the way.