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 Jesuit religious order. On Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 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]

Raised in an African-American family, Murry originally belonged to the African Methodist Episcopal Church but converted to Roman Catholicism when he was a child while attending parochial school in Baltimore.^[2] 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.^[3] 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

Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop
Posthumous style	none

In May 1998, Pope John Paul II appointed him Coadjutor Bishop of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. In July 1999 Murry 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.

References

↑ Photo of Bishop Murry
↑ Canton Reporter: "Faith and Values: Black Catholics embrace heritage, history" by Charita Goshay December 1, 2012.
↑ "Pope Appoints Bishop George V. Murry as Bishop of Youngstown", United States Conference of Catholic Bishops press release dated January 30, 2007. "George V. Murry was born December 28, 1948, in Camden, New Jersey. He attended Camden Catholic High School, St. Joseph’s College, Philadelphia, St. Thomas Seminary, Bloomfield, Connecticut, and St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore, where he received a B.A. in Philosophy in 1972."

External links

National Black Catholic Congress bio of George Murry

Catholic Church titles
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

Persondata
Name	Murry, George
Alternative names
Short description	Catholic bishop
Date of birth	1948
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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