George Murry

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Bishop George Vance Murry was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1948. In 1972, he became a member of the Jesuits religious order. Currently he is Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands.

Bishop Murry obtained an M.Div. degree from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and a Masters and a Ph.D. in American Cultural History from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Bishop Murry served as a university professor, President of Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, DC, and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Detroit, before being appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago by Pope John Paul II in 1995. In May 1998, the Pope appointed him Coadjutor Bishop of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. In July 1999 he was appointed Bishop of St. Thomas.

He also sits on numerous boards, including those of the University of Detroit, St. Joseph's University, Mount St. Mary's College and Loyola Academy in Detroit. Presently, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of Loyola University, Treasurer of the Bishops' Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), and Chairman of the Bishops Committee on African American Catholics. Bishop Murry has been National Chaplain to the Knights and Ladies of Peter Claver since August 1998.

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• National Black Catholic Congress bio of George Murry