Leslie Griffiths

Leslie John Griffiths, Baron Griffiths of Burry Port FLSW (born 15 February 1942) is a British Methodist minister, politician and life peer who served as President of the Methodist Conference from 1994 to 1995.

[2] He completed a Master of Arts in Theology at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge in 1969, while training for the ministry at Wesley House.

In 1987 Griffiths completed a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

[2] In 1994, Griffiths became one of the few people to be elected President of the Methodist Conference whilst still a circuit minister.

[4] On 20 August 2009, Griffiths published an article in the Methodist Recorder outlining a prospective plan for his "conditional ordination" by Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, in the Church of England.