Chuck Murphy

Charles Hurt "Chuck" Murphy, III is an American bishop. He has been the missionary bishop, bishop and chairman of the Anglican Mission in the Americas, the former missionary wing of the Anglican Church of Rwanda in the United States and Canada, since its origin in 2000, with his retirement expected to take place in December 2013. He has been married for more than 40 years and has three adult daughters. He comes from a family of Episcopal priests, being the son, brother and brother-in-law of priests. Murphy graduated from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He afterwards moved to Trinity College in Bristol, England, where he studied theology under J. I. Packer. He completed his theology training at the University of the South. He served in several congregations in the United States, until being called to serve as rector of All Saints' Church in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, in 1982, where he would stay for more than 20 years. A traditionalist Episcopalian, he opposed the more liberal tendencies of Anglicanism in North America.