George Vance Murry
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His Excellency, The Most Reverend George Vance Murry S.J. |
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| 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 |
December 28, 1948 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 |
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Styles of George Vance Murry |
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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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