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DIOCESE OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO

Most Reverend George V. Murry, SJ
Bishop of Youngstown

Bishop George V. Murry, SJ was born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1948. After graduating from Catholic Elementary and High School, he attended St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, and St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1972, he entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and was ordained to the priesthood in 1979.

Bishop Murry holds a Masters of Divinity Degree from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and a Masters of Philosphy and Ph.D. in American Cultural History from The George Washington University, Washington, DC. Bishop Murry has 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 Paul II in 1995. Then in May 1998, the Pope appointed him Coadjutor Bishop of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. He appointed Bishop of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, July 1999 and in January 2007 appointed Bishop of Youngstown, Ohio.

He has also served on numerous Boards including the University of Detroit, St. Joseph’s University, Mount St. Mary’s College and Loyola Academy in Detroit. Presently, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of Loyola University in Chicago, Treasurer of the Bishops’ Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), and Chairman of the Bishops Committee on African American Catholics. Bishop Murry has been National Chaplain to the Knights and Ladies of Peter Claver since August 1998.

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