Duncan Montgomery Montgomery Gray

Background

Gray, Duncan Montgomery was born on September 21, 1926 in Canton, Mississippi, United States. Son of Duncan Montgomery and Isabel (McCrady) Gray.

Education

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Tulane University, 1948; Master of Divinity, U. South, 1953; honorary Doctor of Divinity, U. South, 1972.

Career

Ordained priest, Episcopal Church, 1953; bishop, Episcopal Church, 1974; priest-in-charge, Calvary Church, Cleveland priest-in-charge, Mississippi and Grace Church, Rosedale, Mississippi, 1953-1957; priest-in-charge, Holy Innocents Church, Como, Mississippi, 1957-1960; rector, St. Peter's Church, Oxford, Mississippi, 1957-1965; rector, St. Paul's Church, Meridian, Mississippi, 1965-1974; bishop coadjutor, Diocese of Mississippi, Jackson, 1974; bishop, Diocese of Mississippi, 1974-1993. Chairman Standing Commision on Constitution and Canons of General Convention of Episcopalian Church, 1977-1983, House of Bishops' Committee Canons, 1975-1989. President Province IV Episcopalian Church, 1984-1988, Chairman of Commission on rules, 1989-1993.

Member advice council to the Presiding Bishop, 1984-1988. Vice Chairman, Board Archives Episcopalian Church.

Membership

Chairman board of trustees All Saints Episcopalian School, Vicksburg, 1975-1977. Trustee U. South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 1974-1997, regent, 1981-1987, chancellor, 1991-1997. Chairman Mississippi Religious Leadership Conference, 1977-1979, Southern Regional Council, 1967-1973.

Member Mississippi Mental Health Association, 1968-1973. Board directors Mississippi Council on Human Relations, 1962-1993, president, 1963-1967. Member Mississippi Advisory Committee to the United States Commision on Civil Rights, 1975-1990.

Connections

Married Ruth Miller Spivey, February 9, 1948. Children: Duncan Montgomery, Anne Gray Finley, Lloyd Spivey, Catherine Gray Clark.

Father:

Duncan Montgomery Gray

Mother:

Isabel (McCrady) Gray

Spouse:

Ruth Miller Spivey

child:

Lloyd Spivey Gray

child:

Anne Gray Finley Gray

child:

Duncan Montgomery Gray

child:

Catherine Gray Clark Gray