16 Facts About Laurie Green

Laurence Alexander "Laurie" Green was born on 26 December 1945 and is a retired British Anglican bishop.

Laurie Green 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.

Laurie Green was a curate at St Mark's Kingstanding, Birmingham, after which he was vicar of St Chad, Erdington, where he set up an ecumenical parish at Spaghetti Junction with local Methodists.

Laurie Green worked as Assistant Youth Officer for the diocese and as Industrial Chaplain to the British Steel Corporation.

In 1993, Laurie Green moved to Essex to become the Bishop of Bradwell, where he served for eighteen years before retiring to Bexhill in Sussex.

Laurie Green was consecrated a bishop on 23 February 1993, by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.

Laurie Green was a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Urban Theology Group, served on the Urban Bishops' Panel of the Church of England and as chair of the Church of England's Urban Strategy Consultative Group.

Laurie Green was instrumental in the setting up of an International Anglican Commission and Network on Global Urbanisation.

On 11 February 2017, Laurie Green was one of fourteen retired bishops to sign an open letter to the then-serving bishops of the Church of England.

Laurie Green has continued to campaign for full equality for practising homosexuals in the Church of England.

Laurie Green has written extensively on the nature of theology, international debt and urban mission.

Laurie Green's Let's Do Theology was described by Leonardo Boff{ as an authentic liberation theology for the English-speaking world, and by Elaine Graham as "a classic text".

Laurie Green remains founding-chair of the National Estate Churches Network and in retirement, works alongside the Church Urban Fund as Chair and Development Officer for the NECN in the support of the church's work on the poorer housing estates and projects of the UK.

Laurie Green continues to work as a founding trustee of the charity Building Better Futures International.

Laurie Green is the bishop visitor to the Anglican Benedictine community of religious sisters at Malling Abbey, Kent.