John Broadhurst

The Revd Monsignor John Broadhurst
Broadhurst at his ordination as a Catholic deacon, 13 January 2011
Church	Roman Catholic Church
See	Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
Other posts	Bishop of Fulham (CofE; 1996–2010)
Orders
Ordination	1966 (CofE) 13 January 2011 (RCC)
Consecration	24 September 1996 (CofE)
Personal details
Born	(1942-07-20) 20 July 1942 (age 74)
Nationality	British
Denomination	Roman Catholic (formerly Anglican)
Spouse	Judi (1965–present)
Children	Four children: Jane, Mark, Sarah, Benedict
Alma mater	King's College London

John Charles Broadhurst (born 20 July 1942) is an English priest of the Roman Catholic Church. Broadhurst was formerly a bishop of the Church of England and served as the Bishop of Fulham in the Diocese of London from 1996 to 2010. He resigned in order to be received into the Roman Catholic Church and became a priest in that church in 2011.

As a child Broadhurst was baptised in the Roman Catholic Church. He grew up in Hendon and was educated at Owens School in Islington.

Broadhurst trained as an Anglican ordinand at King's College London and St Boniface College in Warminster. He was made a deacon in 1966 and ordained a priest in 1967.

Broadhurst began his ministry at St Michael-at-Bowes, Palmerston Road, progressing through St Augustine's Wembley Park to the Parish of Wood Green (known as Wood Green Team Ministry). In 1972 he became the youngest elected member of the General Synod of the Church of England, a position he held until 1996. He became Area Dean of Brent while at Wembley Park, and East Haringey during his time at Wood Green. He was consecrated Bishop of Fulham (a so-called "flying bishop") on 24 September 1996. He had "the pastoral care of parishes which are opposed to the ordination of women".

Broadhurst was formerly the chairman of Forward in Faith and vice-chairman of the Church Union.

In 2009 there were reports that Cardinal Christoph Schönborn had been meeting with Broadhurst at the suggestion of the Pope.

In October 2010, Broadhurst publicly stated his intention of being received into the Roman Catholic Church and entering a personal ordinariate for former Anglicans when it was established. In the same speech he described the Church of England's General Synod, in respect of its decision about the way in which objectors to the idea of ordaining women as bishops may or may not have legislative provision to protect their interests, as having been "...vindictive and vicious. It has been fascist in its behaviour, marginalising those who have been opposed to women's ordination", a statement for which he has been criticised, and in respect of which he later claimed on the BBC's Sunday programme to have been referring only to the House of Clergy in the Church of England's General Synod.