Theodore Ainsworth Greene

Background

Greene, Theodore Ainsworth was born on January 12, 1890 in Andover, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review Frederick William and Eliza Farrar (Walter) Greene.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Amherst College, 1913. Master of Arts, 1916; Bachelor of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, 1918. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1922.

Doctor of Divinity, Piedmont College, 1936.

Career

Graduate secretary Amherst Christian Association, 1913-1914. Director religious work, Amherst College, 1914-1915. Student assistant Broadway Tabernacle, New York, 1915-1916.

Director religious education First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, 1916-1918.

Ordained to ministry of Congressional Church, 1918. Assistant pastor Brick Presbyterian Church, New York, 1918-1925.

Pastor First Church of Christ (Center Congressional), New Britain, Connecticut, since 1925. Director Grenfell Association America since 1917, secretary, 1922-1925.

Director International Grenfell Association since 1920, vice chairman since 1930.

Associate secretary American Section Universal Christian Council on Life and Work, Stockholm, Sweden, 1923-1925, chairman of the executive committee, 1936. President Connecticut Council Religious Education, 1928-1931. Chairman of Commission on international relations, General Council Congressional and Christian Churches in the United States, 1931-1934.

Chairman Connecticut Conference Congressional Churches, 1938-1939.

Trustee Piedmont College since 1933, Hartford Seminary since 1940, Madura College, India, since 1943. Delegate World Conference on Church, Community and State, University of Oxford, 1937.

Achievements

• Theodore Ainsworth Greene has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Alpha Delta Phi, American Society Church History, executive committees General Council Congressional Churches and World Alliance for International Friendship through Churches since 1939. Member Prudential Committee, American Board Commissioners for Foreign Missions since 1941, vice chairman, 1942-1944, chairman since 1944.

Member American Joint Committee, World Council of Churches since 1941.

Clubs: University (New York).

Connections

Married Dorothy Goldthwait Thayer, May 23, 1918. Children: Theodore Phinney, Thayer Ainsworth.

Father:

Review Frederick William Greene

Mother:

Eliza Farrar (Walter) Greene

Spouse:

Dorothy Goldthwait Thayer

child:

Theodore Phinney Greene

child:

Thayer Ainsworth Greene