Mark Green (bishop)

Mark Green MC (28 March 1917 – 2 August 2009) was the suffragan Bishop of Aston from 1972[1] to 1982. He was born into an ecclesiastical family[2] and educated at Rossall School and Lincoln College, Oxford. He studied for ordination at Ripon College Cuddesdon before a curacy at St Catherine’s Gloucester.[3] After World War II service as a Chaplain to the Forces[4] he held incumbencies at Hull and Acaster Malbis. He was then Rural Dean of Ainsty[5] before elevation to the Episcopate. He retired in 1982.

References

  1. ↑ D-Day chaplains are made bishops suffragan The Times Thursday, 23 March 1972; p. 19; Issue 58434; col E
  2. ↑ His father was the Rev E.W. Green OBE > Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
  3. ↑ Church web-site
  4. ↑ "Bishop and inspirational Army chaplain who drove a tank into battle to rescue wartime wounded" Daily Telegraph Issue no 47,966 (dated 24 September 2009) Obituaries p 31
  5. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0
Church of England titles
Preceded by
David Brownfield Porter		 Bishop of Aston
1972 – 1982 		Succeeded by
Michael Humphrey Dickens Whinney