Bishop George Vance Murry was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1948. In 1972, he became a member of the Jesuit religious order. On Wednesday, March 28, 2007, Bishop Murry was installed as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown. Bishop Murry was elected Secretary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops during the bishops' November 2007 meeting in Baltimore; he will serve in this post for the next three years. [1]
Bishop Murry attended Camden Catholic High School. His undergraduate studies were at St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield, Connecticut and received a B.A. in Philosophy at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore.[2] He 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.
| Styles of George Murry |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Bishop |
| Posthumous style | none |
In May 1998, the Pope John Paul II appointed him Coadjutor Bishop of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. In July 1999 he was appointed Bishop of St. Thomas. On January 30, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him as the fifth Bishop of Youngstown. (Herbert Bevard, then Msgr. and then-pastor of St. Athanasius parish in the city and Archdiocese of Philadelphia, was appointed to succeed Bishop Murry in the Diocese of St. Thomas.)
Bishop Murry has served on numerous boards, including those of the University of Detroit, St. Joseph's University, Mount St. Mary's College, Loyola Academy in Detroit, and Loyola University Chicago. Presently, he is a member of the board of Fairfield University, and Catholic Relief Services. He was recently elected chairman of the United States Catholic Bishops Committee on Domestic Policy and invited onto the board of directors for the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio.
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| Preceded by Elliot Griffin Thomas |
Bishop of St. Thomas 1999–2007 |
Succeeded by Herbert Bevard |
| Preceded by Thomas J. Tobin |
Bishop of Youngstown 30 January 2007–present |
Incumbent |
