Chairman Board of Bishops, Church of God in Christ

Prelate, California North Central Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction

Pastor, Good Samaritan Cathedral COGIC

 

  Bishop Murray is the Jurisdictional Prelate of the California North-Central (CNC) Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Church of God in Christ, Inc. He has been honored to serve the CNC Jurisdiction for twenty-six (26) years.

 

  He is a graduate Electrical Engineer from the University of California in Berkeley, with a post-graduate certificate in Executive and Corporate management from the Haas School of Business.

 

  Bishop Murray served for 25 years as the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of a multi-national engineering consulting firm with offices in Brussels Belgium, Newark New Jersey, Washington D.C., Chicago Illinois, Irvine California, San Ramon California, and Redwood City California.

 

  After becoming ordained Bishop Murray founded the City of Refuge Tabernacle Church of God in Christ in Oakland, California in 1975 and served as Pastor of that local congregation for eighteen years.

 

  In 1993, he was selected to serve as Pastor of the Good Samaritan Cathedral Church of God in Christ in Oakland, California, where he has been honored to serve for thirty (32) years.

 

  Bishop Murray has served in the capacity of Pastor for a total of fifty (51) years.

 

  He earned his Doctor of Divinity degree from the Pneuma Theological Seminary in Berkeley California

 

  In 1999, Bishop Murray was appointed by the Presiding Bishop and the General Board of the Church of God in Christ to serve as the Jurisdictional Prelate of the California North Central Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. He is the fourth CNC Jurisdictional Prelate in succession.

 

 Bishop Murray’s current assignment at the national level for our church allows him to serve as

Chairman of the College of Bishops, Church of God in Christ Inc., worldwide.

He is the 10th College of Bishops Chairman in succession.

 

  His primary aim in ministry is to see sinners delivered from the ravages of sin and the Saints strengthened, matured in the word of God, and made whole.

 

  His anointed preaching and teaching have resulted in multitudes being delivered from spiritual, emotional, and physical infirmities.

 

  This is the year (2026) in which Bishop Donald R. Murray celebrates sixty-three (63) years in ministry.  He has been married to Lady Gwendolyn Murray for 55 years and is the proud father of Pastor Ray Murray and Trina Murray.

 

   Bishop Murray contends that all he has become or ever hopes to be, is by the grace of God alone.