Overseers Biography

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Bishop Leroy Greenaway

Leroy Victor Stephen Greenaway was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. He is the fifth child of eight children to William David and Carmen Greenaway. He was converted at the early age of twelve, a second-generation Church of God of Prophecy preacher. Leroy began preaching around the age of fourteen and was called to his first pastorate at the age of nineteen.

After attending school in Trinidad where he majored in languages, he then migrated to Cleveland Tennessee, USA where he attended Tomlinson College and Lee University respectively. He graduated from Lee University in 1981 with a BA in Sociology, magna cum laude, and a minor in Biblical Studies. In 2010 he graduated from the Palmer Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree and graduated from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in May 2019 with a Doctor of Ministry degree.

A minister in the Church of God of Prophecy, Leroy has traveled extensively, preaching the gospel throughout the Caribbean, the US, Canada, and England, serving as evangelist, camp meeting speaker, and youth camp evangelist.

In 1985 he migrated to Toronto, Canada to take up a position as Youth Pastor of the Pape Avenue Church of God of Prophecy. Later that same year he was asked to accept a pastorate in Montreal, Quebec. After 16 years the Montreal West congregation grew from 89 to over 300 under the
ministry of Bishop Greenaway. In July 2002 he was appointed as Regional Bishop to the Mid-Atlantic Region, where he served for 12 years.
On December 1st, 2014, he was reassigned to the Northeast Region where he presently serves the areas of Bermuda, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.

He is married to the former Christina Kelly of Birmingham, England. They are blessed to have two children, Jessica and James, and a beautiful granddaughter Zaiah Williams.