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George Murry

His Excellency, The Most Reverend
George Vance Murry
S.J.
Bishop of Youngstown
Church Catholic Church
Archdiocese Cincinnati
Diocese Youngstown
Appointed January 30, 2007
Installed March 28, 2007
Predecessor Thomas J. Tobin
Orders
Ordination June 9, 1979
Consecration March 20, 1995
by Joseph Bernardin, Alfred Leo Abramowicz, and Timothy Joseph Lyne
Personal details
Born (1948-12-28) December 28, 1948 (age 68)
Camden, New Jersey
Previous post Bishop of Saint Thomas (1999-2007)
Coadjutor Bishop of Saint Thomas (1998-1999)
Titular Bishop of Diocese of Fuerteventura (1995-1998)
Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago (1995-1998)
Motto CHRIST MY LIGHT
Styles of
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Reference style The Most Reverend
Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Bishop

George Vance Murry S.J. is an African-American prelate of the Catholic Church and member of the Jesuit Order. He has been the Bishop of the Diocese of Youngstown since 2007. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago from 1995 to 1999 and as the bishop of the Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands from 1999 to 2007.

Murry was born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1948. He originally belonged to the African Methodist Episcopal Church but converted to Roman Catholicism when he was a child while attending a parochial school in Baltimore, Maryland. He later attended Camden Catholic High School.

Murry did undergraduate studies at St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia and St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield, Connecticut before receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore. In 1972 he was admitted as a member of the Society of Jesus. After completing his period of novitiate in 1974, he went on to obtain a Master of Divinity degree from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and a Masters and Doctorate in American Cultural History from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He was ordained a Catholic priest on June 9, 1979.


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