John Green CB

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

 became Chaplain of the Fleet; Director General, Naval Chaplaincy Service and Archdeacon for the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 in March 2006.

He was born on 14 August 1953 and educated at North East London Polytechnic. From 1974 to 1980 he was a Project Engineer with Thorn Lighting Ltd. He was ordained in 1983 and began his ecclesiastical career with curacies

Curate

A curate is a person who is invested with the care or cure of souls of a parish. In this sense "curate" correctly means a parish priest but in English-speaking countries a curate is an assistant to the parish priest...

 at St Michael and All Angels, Watford

Watford

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 and St. Stephen's Church, St. Albans

St. Stephen's Church, St. Albans

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.

He became a Naval

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 Chaplain

Chaplain

Traditionally, a chaplain is a minister in a specialized setting such as a priest, pastor, rabbi, or imam or lay representative of a religion attached to a secular institution such as a hospital, prison, military unit, police department, university, or private chapel...

 in 1991: his service included

• HMS Sultan
  HMS Sultan
  HMS Sultan is a shore base of the Royal Navy in Gosport, Hampshire, England.Formerly RAF Gosport and then the Royal Naval Air Station HMS Siskin,-External links:*...
  
  , 1991–92
• 3rd Destroyer Sqdn, 1992–93
• HMNB Portsmouth
  HMNB Portsmouth
  Her Majesty's Naval Base Portsmouth is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the British Royal Navy...
  
  , 1993–94
• HMS Excellent
  HMS Excellent
  HMS Excellent is a Royal Navy "stone frigate" sited on Whale Island near Portsmouth in Hampshire.HMS Excellent is itself part of the Maritime Warfare School, with a Headquarters at HMS Collingwood, although a number of lodger units are resident within the site, the principal of which is the...
  
  , 1994–95
• Minor Warfare Vessel Flotilla, 1996–98
• Staff Chaplain to Chaplain of the Fleet, 1998–2001
• HMS Ark Royal
  HMS Ark Royal
  Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ark Royal:*Ark Royal , the flagship of the English fleet during the Spanish Armada campaign of 1588., merchant ship, converted to an aircraft carrier during World War I, British aircraft carrier launched in 1937 that participated in World War II...
  
  , 2001–03
• HMS Collingwood
  HMS Collingwood
  Three ships and one shore establishment of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Collingwood, after Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood....
  
  , 2003–06
• Chaplain of the Fleet and Director General, Naval Chaplaincy Service 2006-2010

He headed the Naval Chaplaincy Service Board of Management with responsibility for policy making and overall leadership. As Archdeacon for the Royal Navy he is the senior Anglican chaplain in the Royal Navy.

Green was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2010 New Year Honours.

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