The Right Reverend Girault McArthur Jones D.D. | |
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Bishop of Louisiana | |
Church | Episcopal Church |
Diocese | Louisiana |
Elected | November 17, 1948 |
In office | 1949–1969 |
Predecessor | John Long Jackson |
Successor | Iveson B. Noland |
Orders | |
Ordination | May 19, 1929 by William Mercer Green |
Consecration | March 9, 1949 by Henry Knox Sherrill |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | April 29, 1998 Nashville, Tennessee, United States | (aged 93)
Buried | University of the South Cemetery, Sewanee, Tennessee |
Denomination | Anglican |
Parents | Ackland Hartley Jones & Elizabeth Girault Shaifer |
Spouse | Virginia Hester Wallace (m. 1930, d. 1930) Kathleen Platt (m. 1935) |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | University of Mississippi |
Girault McArthur Jones (June 30, 1904 - April 29, 1998) was seventh Bishop of Louisiana in The Episcopal Church, elected in 1948.[1]
He was born and raised in Mississippi and attended college at the University of Mississippi and the University of the South, where he earned a bachelor of divinity. Following his election as bishop, he was awarded a Doctor of Divinity by his alma mater. He later served as Chancellor of University of the South.