George Mosley Murray (April 12, 1919 - July 14, 2006) was a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States. He was born 1919 in Baltimore, Maryland. His mother, Emma Winston Eareckson, was a registered nurse and head of pediatric nursing in the United States Steel Corporation's villages. His father, Gerald Murray, was an engineer at the United States Steel Corporation. Murray had a brother named Gerard. As a small child, George's parents moved him to Bessemer, Alabama, his father's new place of employment. Later, George attended the University of Alabama. He died at the age of 87 on July 14, 2006, in Fairhope, Alabama. Education George Mosley Murray graduated from the University of Alabama in 1940 with a B.S. degree in business administration. He previously graduated from Hueytown High School. He worked for the General Electric company in Charlotte, North Carolina, until 1942 when he joined the Navy. George served in the military for 4 years of service. He enlisted in the Navy when World War II started. Murray served as an instructor in the Gunnery School for a year before volunteering for seventeen months on the submarine Pintado. He was discharged in 1946. George's term in the Navy only confirmed his desire to become a minister. He wanted to work for the Episcopal Church. So after his discharge in 1946, Murray decided that he wanted to attend the Virginia Theological Seminary in which graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1948. Work After his graduation, he was ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Carpenter of Alabama on April 5, 1948, at Trinity Church, Bessemer, Alabama, and priest a few months later at Christ Church, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Shortly after, he accepted his first position in the church as the Episcopal student chaplain at the University of Alabama. Five years later, at the age of thirty-four, he was elected the Suffragan bishop of the Alabama Diocese, and after his consecration at the Church of the Advent in Birmingham, became assistant to Bishop Charles Colcock Jones Carpenter. In 1959, his election was virtually assured when he was made Bishop Coadjutor and thus was slated to succeed Bishop Carpenter. And in 1969, he became the Ordinary of the Diocese. But he remained in the post only two years. When the Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast was created from the southern one-third of Alabama and the Florida panhandle,