Santosh Marray
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The Right Reverend Santosh Marray |
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| Church | Episcopal Church (United States) |
| Diocese | Easton |
| Other posts |
Bishop of Seychelles (2005-2008) Assistant Bishop of East Carolina (2009-2012) Assistant Bishop of Alabama (2012-2016) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1981 (deacon) 1981 (priest) |
| Consecration | 2005 |
Santosh Kumar Marray, is the eleventh and current Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Easton. He was previously the Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Alabama. He joined the Diocese of East Carolina in October 2009 as an Assistant Bishop. He came to the post from the Diocese of Florida, where he was serving as an interim rector for St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church in Jacksonville, Fla. Prior to that, he was Bishop of Seychelles, a group of islands in the western Indian Ocean.
Bishop Marray is the third of six children born to the late Gurdat and Chandrawati Marray in Guyana, South America. He was reared as a Hindu, the traditional religion of his parents and ancestors, and converted to Christianity when he was 16 years old while attending small, rural Anglican church.
He earned a B.A. in theology from the University of West Indies, and a diploma in pastoral studies from Codrington College in Barbados. At Codrington, he was awarded the Bishop Coleridge Prize for the best graduating student in theology. He earned his D.Min. degree from Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall Episcopal Seminary in Rochester, New York, and went on to earn his Master of Laws in Canon Law from the Cardiff University Centre for Law and Religion in the United Kingdom. He also holds a Master’s in Sacred Theology from General Theological Seminary in New York.
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