Laura Jean Ahrens (born August 9, 1962) is an American prelate who currently serves as the Suffragan Bishop of Connecticut.
She graduated with her doctoral thesis titled Engaging a Generation, Adult Education for Baby Boomers.
She spent her diaconate and the first year of her priesthood as curate of St Peter's Church in Osterville, Massachusetts.
[1] On March 10, 2007, Ahrens was elected on the fifth ballot as Suffragan Bishop of Connecticut at a special convention held in Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford.
[2] She was consecrated on June 30, 2007, in the Woolsey Hall of Yale University, by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.