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A Brief Biography of the Rt Rev
Julio Murray, Bishop of Panama The Bishop Julio Murray
Thomps Bishop Murray attended high school at the National Institute of Panama and college at the University of Panama and the Instituto de Técnicas Especializadas. He made his theological studies in the Latin American Biblical Seminary, San Jóse, Costa Rica; in the National University of Heredia and later in the Latin American Biblical University, in San jóse, Costa Rica. He also studied at the Bossey Institute in Geneva. He has actively written and committed himself to society through his membership and participation in several civic and social organizations: member of the Active 20-30 Club; Vice-president of the Afro-Caribbean Community of Theologians; founding member of the Friends of the Ethno-Caribbean Museum of Bocas del Toro; a founding member of the Foundation for Integral Human Development. It has represented the Episcopal Church of Panama as a delegate to the Provincial Synod of the Anglican Church of the Central American Region and as a delegate to Episcopal Church General Conventions held in Philadelphia, Indianapolis and Phoenix. Among his writings we can mention: The Episcopal Church and the Family; articles about Pastoral Counciling and Youth Counciling, and the History of the Anglicanism in Costa Rica. After being ordained to the priesthood he developed his pastoral ministry in: The Cathedral of St Luke (88-90); the Church of St Isador the Worker and the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Arraiján (88-90). He served as pastor to four Episcopal congregations in the province of Bocas del Toro (90-97), and ministered to the general population during the difficult period following the 1991 earthquake. Until he was elected Bishop he functioned as pastor of the Church of Christ by the Sea and Chaplain of the Episcopal School of Christ in the City of Colon starting in 1997. At the end of 1997 he was named canon of St Luke's Cathedral.. He has represented youth ministry of the Episcopal Church of Panama as a member of the Committee of Reflection of the National Council of Youth Ministry, and as youth chaplain of summer camps and meetings. He was elected Diocesan Bishop at the Special Convention of 20 May 2000. He was ordained and consecrated as Bishop of Panama on 19 August 2000 at the Hotel Panama in Panama City. He became a member of the Board of directors of the Latin American Council of Churches on January of 2001. He was elected vice-president of the Council of Bishops of the Anglican Church of the Central American Region on 13 April 2002.
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on, was born the 19 of December of 1958,
in the Panama City, Panama. He is one of four
children of the marriage of Clarence A. Murray and
Pearl W. Thompson de Murray. He is married to
Lorena Copeland and has two children - Jewel
Joshira Murray Copeland and Sean Luke Murray
Copeland.