GOD-PARENTS. See Baptism, III., 7.

GODWIN, FRANCIS: Bishop of Hereford; b. at Hannington (7 m. n.e. of Northampton), Northamptonshire, 1562; d. at Whitbourne (16 m. n.e. of Hereford) Apr., 1633. He was the son of Thomas Godwin, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and studied at Christ Church, Oxford (B.A., 1581; M.A., 1584; B.D., 1594; D.D., 1596). After having held various preferments, including the subdeanery of Exeter, he was elevated to the see of Llandaff in 1601, and translated to the see of Hereford in 1617. His principal works are: Catalogus episcoporum Bathoniensium et Wellensium, a manuscript in Trinity College, published in part by Thomas Hearn in his edition of John Whethamstede'a chronicle (Oxford, 1732); A Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the First Planting of the Christian Religion on this Island (London, 1601; Lat. transl., 1616); Rerum Anglicarum Henrico VIII., Edwardo VI. et Maria regnanhbus, Annales (1616; Eng. transl., Annales of England; Containing the Reignes of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixt, Queens Mary, 1630); and the posthumous The Man in the Moon (1638; French transl., Paris, 1647), which suggested to Cyrano de Bergerac the theme for his famous "Voyage to the Moon."

Bibliography: A. A Wood, Athenle Oxonienws, ed P. Bliss, ii. 555, 882, 4 vols., London, 1813-20; J. Le Neve, Fasti ecclesiee Anplicanou, i. 196, 390, 470, ii. 252, Oxford, 1854; DNB, xxii. 55-58.

GOEBEL, ga'bel, SIEGFRIED ABRAHAM: German Reformed; b. at Winningen (4 m. s.w. of Coblenz) Mar. 24, 1844. He was educated at the universities of Erlangen (1863-64), Halls (1864-65), and Berlin (1865-67), and was deacon at St. Peter's, Posen (1868-74), court preacher at Halberstadt (1874-89), and consistorial councilor at Münster (1889-95). Since 1895 he has been professor of theology at the University of Bonn. In theology he represents Biblical Christianity, and has written Die Parabeln Jesu (2 vols., Gotha, 1879-$0; Eng. transl. by J. S. Banks, Edinburgh, 1883); Neutestamentliche Schriften, griechisch, mit kurzer Erklarung 2 vols., Gotha, 1887-93); Das Christentum Christi und das kirchliche Christentum (Gütersloh, 1896); and Die Reden unsers Herrn nach Johannes im Grundtext ausgelegt, i (1906).