Santosh Marray

The Right Reverend

Santosh Marray
The Right Reverend; Santosh Marray
Bishop of Easton
	Marray at the 350th anniversary service for Christ Church St. Michaels in 2022.
Church	Episcopal Church
Diocese	Easton
Elected	June 11, 2016
In office	2016–present
Predecessor	James J. Shand
Orders
Ordination	January 1981 (deacon); December 1981 (priest)
Consecration	April 5, 2005; by Remi Rabenirina
Personal details
Born	1957; Guyana
Nationality	Guyanese
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Gurdat & Chandrawati Marray
Spouse	Nalini ‘Lynn’
Children	2
Previous post(s)	Bishop of Seychelles (2005-2008); Assistant Bishop of East Carolina (2009-2012); Assistant Bishop of Alabama (2012-2016)

Santosh Kumar Marray (born 1957) is the eleventh and current bishop of the

Diocese of East Carolina (2009-2012). Prior to that, he was Bishop of Seychelles.^[1]^[2] He was ordained as a priest in 1981, and served in this capacity in Florida, Guyana, and the Bahamas before being consecrated as bishop.^[3]

Biography

Bishop Marray is the third of six children born to the late Gurdat and Chandrawati Marray in

Hindu, the traditional religion of his parents and ancestors, and converted to Christianity

when he was 16 years old while attending a small, rural Anglican church.

He earned a B.A. in theology from the University of West Indies, and a diploma in pastoral studies 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.

In September 2008, the board of governors of Bexley Hall Episcopal Seminary in Columbus, Ohio, awarded Marray the degree of Doctor of Divinity (Honoris Causa) in recognition of his contribution to the church in various parts of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

Marray was ordained as deacon at St. George's Cathedral in Georgetown, Guyana, in January 1981 and, eleven months later, as priest of All Saints’ Church in New Amsterdam, Guyana. He has since served parishes in Guyana, in the Bahamas, Florida and the Seychelles, where he was ordained Bishop of Seychelles.

He was a member of the Anglican Communion Covenant Design Group, charged by the Archbishop of Canterbury to develop and draft an Anglican Covenant for the communion, and he serves the wider Anglican Communion as a pastoral visitor for the Archbishop of Canterbury.^[4]

In September, 2012, Bishop Marray accepted the call to the position of Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, under the Right Reverend John McKee Sloan.^[5]

Marray is married to Nalini, a former schoolteacher; the couple live in Easton. They have two adult children, a daughter, Amanda, and a son, Ingram, who is married to Tenille Barton.

References

^ "The Rt. Rev. Santosh Marray", Episcopal Church. Retrieved on 19 November 2019.
^ "Santosh Marray elected as 11th bishop of the Diocese of Easton", Episcopal News Service, 12 June 2016. Retrieved on 19 November 2019.
^ Biography of Santosh Marray on diocesan website
^ "BISHOP SANTOSH MARRAY ELEVATED", Christ Church Cathedral. Retrieved on 19 November 2019.
^ "Marray | Episcopal Diocese of Alabama". dioala.org. Archived from the original on 2013-08-30.

[1] "The Rt. Rev. Santosh Marray", Episcopal Church. Retrieved on 19 November 2019.

[2] "Santosh Marray elected as 11th bishop of the Diocese of Easton", Episcopal News Service, 12 June 2016. Retrieved on 19 November 2019.

[3] Biography of Santosh Marray on diocesan website

[4] "BISHOP SANTOSH MARRAY ELEVATED", Christ Church Cathedral. Retrieved on 19 November 2019.

[5] "Marray | Episcopal Diocese of Alabama". dioala.org. Archived from the original on 2013-08-30.

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