Laurie Green
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The Right Reverend Laurie Green |
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| Church | Church of England |
| Diocese | Diocese of Chelmsford |
| In office | 1993 – 28 February 2011 |
| Predecessor | Derek Bond |
| Successor | John Wraw |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 24 May 1970 |
| Consecration | 23 February 1993 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
26 December 1945 East End of London |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Residence | Bishop’s House, Horndon-on-the-Hill |
| Spouse | Victoria (1969—) |
| Children | 2 daughters |
| Alma mater | King's College London |
Laurence Alexander "Laurie" Green (born 26 December 1945) is a retired British Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Bradwell from 1993 to 2011.
Laurie Green was born in Newham in the East End of London, the son of a bus driver and factory worker. As a young man he worked in a jellied-eel factory and then as a hairdresser. He was educated at East Ham Grammar School and King's College London (BD, AKC) and then at the New York Theological Seminary (STM, DMin). There he studied the dynamics of East Harlem gangs and attained his master's degree in psychology and pastoral studies. After further studies at St Augustine's College, Canterbury, he was ordained in 1970. He was a curacy at St Mark's Kingstanding, Birmingham, after which he was vicar of Erdington, where he set up an ecumenical parish at Spaghetti Junction with local Methodists.
During his time in Birmingham he initiated work in urban theology, worked with Hells Angels and skinheads and had his own BBC Radio programme. He also worked as Assistant Youth Officer for the diocese and as Industrial Chaplain to the British Steel Corporation. At the same time he became an honorary lecturer at the Urban Theology Unit, Sheffield University; For seven years, he was the principal of the Aston Training Scheme for Anglican ordinands, before returning to East London to become, before his ordination to the episcopate, team rector of All Saints, Poplar. Poplar is situated in London’s East End, where his parish had the new financial quarter of Canary Wharf being built at one end, in close proximity to the tower-blocks of abject poverty at the other.
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