The Prime Minister’s Office issued the press release below this morning. The London diocesan website has more details in New Bishop for East London announced.
The King has approved the nomination of The Venerable Roderick (Rod) Ernest Alexander Green, BA, MA, MTh, to the Suffragan See of Stepney, in the Diocese of London
From: Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street and The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP
Published 20 March 2026
The King has approved the nomination of The Venerable Roderick (Rod) Ernest Alexander Green, BA, MA, MTh, Archdeacon of Llandaff, in the Church in Wales, to the Suffragan See of Stepney, in the Diocese of London, in succession to The Right Reverend Dr Joanne Woolway Grenfell, MA, DPhil, following her translation to the See of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
Rod was educated at the University of Reading and the London School of Theology, and trained for ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He served his title at Christ Church, Spitalfields, in the Stepney Area of the Diocese of London and was ordained priest in 2008.
In 2011 he took up the role of Associate Rector at St Paul’s, Shadwell, also in the Stepney Area of the Diocese of London. In 2014 he was appointed Vicar at St. Peter’s, West Harrow, in the Willesden Area of the Diocese of London.
He has served in his current role as Archdeacon of Llandaff, in the Diocese of Llandaff, in the Church in Wales, since 2021.
What a contrast with the new Bishop of St Albans. Trevor Huddleston was once Bishop of Stepney – another contrast. It’s spring. Rod will soon be planting in Stepney.
Is this the second episcopal Rod on the bench of bishops?
This is an appointment of great insight. Congrats to Rod Green. A thoroughly worthy Bishop of Stepney.
When he was Community Development Manager of St Mary Islington Rod was also our first Administrator of Fulcrum, and came up with the name and streamline – Fulcrum: renewing the Evangelical Centre!
He has wide experience and sympathies.