George Murry

Bishop George Vance Murry was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1948. In 1972, he became a member of the Jesuits 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. [ [http://www.doy.org/images/BishopMurry2.jpgPhoto of Bishop Murry] ]

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. [ [http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2007/07-024.shtml "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."] 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. infobox bishopstyles
name=George Murry
dipstyle=The Most Reverend
offstyle=Your Excellency
relstyle=Bishop
deathstyle=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. An apostolic administrator will be named to temporarily supervise the St. Thomas Diocese.

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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* [http://www.nbccongress.org/aboutus/congress-directory/african-american-catholic-bishop-george-murry.asp National Black Catholic Congress] bio of George Murry
* [http://www.nbccc-us.com/bishop_murry.aspx National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus] bio of George Murry
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