On Sunday 18 January 2009 it was announced that after nearly twenty years' service at All Saints, The Reverend Simon Godfrey was to take up the position of Chancellor at St Paul's Anglican Pro-Cathedral, Malta in June 2009. He can be contacted at: The Chancellor, St Paul's Anglican Pro-Cathedral, Independance Square, Valletta, VLT1535, Malta GC and telephone number +35 621 22 57 14. St Paul's has long cultivated its musical tradition. As well as a regular Sunday Choir, the St Paul Choral Society - a local Choir directed by the Organist, Dr Agius Muscat - sings at significant services and the Cathedral welcomes visiting choirs, both at services and for concert performances, to mutual benefit. One of Fr. Simon's tasks upon reaching Valletta was spearheading the organ restoration project and bringing the wealth of expertise he had amassed from his time developing the
Choral Foundation of All Saints to the musical life of the Cathedral. Simon Godfrey was born in London and educated in Devon at Homelands School and Britannia Royal Naval College. Whilst reading Theology at King's College, London, he served on the Parochial Church Council of St Magnus the Martyr in the City of London, and was Head Server at Westminster Abbey. He served his Curacy at St Peter and Paul Kettering before taking his first post as Rector of Crick in Northamptonshire. In 1989 he was appointed to the post of Vicar of All Saints Church, becoming Rector of Northampton in 1998. Since 1988 he has been a Chaplain to the Forces in the Territorial Army, his present position being Chaplain of the Cambridge University Officer Training Corps. He is also the Army Cadet Force Chaplain for Northamptonshire, County Chaplain for the Royal British Legion, and Chaplain of the Royal and Derngate Theatres. He is a Chaplain in the Order of St John and is County Chaplain of St John Ambulance, a Freeman of the City of London, and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.