Green was born in
Llanelli and was educated at
Charterhouse School and
Keble College, Oxford, where he was
President of the Oxford Union in the Hilary term, 1887. He was ordained in 1889. He began his ministry with a
curacy at
Aberdare and was subsequently
Vicar then
Rural Dean of the
area. In 1914 he was appointed
Archdeacon of Monmouth, a post he held until his elevation in 1921 as the first
bishop of the newly established
Diocese of Monmouth. He was expert at organisation and realising that the population of Monmouthshire had changed since the church was created he founded thirteen new parishes. The new parishes reflected the growth of industry and formed principally a new
archdeaconry in Newport. He also redistributed the rural areas and created six new deaneries as part of the
Archdeaconry of Monmouth. These were Abergavenny, Chepstow, Monmouth, Netherwent, Raglan, and Usk. (The latter two were later merged to create the new deanery of Raglan and Usk.) Green was subsequently
Bishop of Bangor (25 Sept. 1928–1944) during which time he also served as
Archbishop of Wales (1934–1944). Cultured but with a reputation for authoritarianism, a representative of the
High Church tradition, Green wrote a work on the church dedications of the Llandaff and Monmouth dioceses and the definitive guide to the constitution of the Church in
Wales. He died at Bishopcourt,
Bangor, aged 79. ==Works==