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In the early morning hours of Tuesday, January 9, 2018, Bishop Charles Hurt Murphy, III died quietly and peacefully in his home in Litchfield Plantation, Pawleys Island, South Carolina. +Chuck was born on December 6, 1947 in Decatur, Alabama, and was the second of five children of the late Rev. Charles H. Murphy, Jr. and Mrs. Anne Hunter Murphy. Chuck was graduated from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in 1970, where he met and married his wife, Margaret Adams, in September of 1969. In 1971, he and Margaret traveled to Trinity College in Bristol, England, where +Chuck studied theology under The Revd. Dr. J.I. Packer before receiving a Masters of Divinity from the University of the South's School of Theology in Sewanee, TN. +Chuck was ordained into the Diocese of Alabama for the Episcopal Church as a deacon and priest in 1975; his 43-year career in parish ministry began in Alabama, first at St. Paul’s Church in Selma and then at St. Thomas in Greenville. In 1980, +Chuck, Margaret, and their three daughters moved to Columbia, South Carolina where +Chuck became Canon Theologian at Trinity Cathedral. The last move by the +Chuck Murphy family was in 1982, when +Chuck accepted the call to become Rector of All Saints Parish, Waccamaw in Pawleys Island, South Carolina. From 1982 until 2000, +Chuck led All Saints Church as its Rector, during which time the Lord used Chuck’s charisma, passion for the Lord, and visionary leadership to cultivate a vibrant parish ministry at All Saints; churches from around the country attended worship and leadership weekends hosted and led by All Saints. During this season, the national Episcopal Church began to reject fundamental aspects of Christianity; Chuck and others refused to allow the church’s actions to go unchallenged, and a movement began. Under Chuck’s leadership, a movement to preserve Anglican orthodoxy began that led to his consecration into the House of Bishops for the Providence of Rwanda in January of 2000. Chuck was commissioned and sent from Rwanda to America to preserve the Anglican theology that the Episcopal Church rejected; under his vision and leadership, an Anglican church planting organization known as the Anglican Mission in America was created, and global Anglicanism was forever changed. Chuck served in a dual ministry capacity from 2000-2004: he remained at All Saints as Rector Emeritus while leading the Anglican Mission in America as its Chairman. In 2004, he resigned his role at All Saints to focus solely on his role as Chairman of the Mission. For the next 10 years, Chuck remained the Chairman of movement that swept across North America, initiating and planting over 200 churches and apostolic works, becoming a missionary society that resourced North America and beyond. In 2014, Chuck resigned as Chairman, and was been elected and called to serve as the founding Bishop and Rector of a new Anglican Mission church plant in Pawleys Island, The Abbey at Pawleys Island, which has now become a place of renewal and spiritual nurture for a new generation in the low country of South Carolina. Chuck Murphy’s ministry made a huge impact locally and globally as he demonstrated bold, innovative, and humble leadership. Chuck knew that to lead was to serve, and he relentlessly empowered those around him: he always sought to maximize their potential while giving them freedom to run and encouragement to grow into the calling God has for each person he encountered; his sense of vision and God’s timing was supernatural in origin and scope. Chuck will be remembered for his personal charisma, passion for life, and boundless love for his Lord, his wife, Margaret, and his three children and their families, and he will be missed. +Chuck is survived by his mother, Anne Hunter Murphy, his wife, Margaret Adams Murphy, his children, Allison Adams Murphy, Mary Hunter Kramer (Scott), Anne Nolen Howard (Will), his sister Donna Dardani (Tom), his brother Timothy Murphy (Katy), his brother Chris (Nancy), and grandchildren, Adams, Nolen and William Howard, and Hunter and Emma Kramer. A Service for the Celebration of Life for The Right Reverend Charles H. Murphy, III will held on Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 2:00pm am at The Abbey at Pawleys Island, 96 Gathering Lane, Pawleys Island, South Carolina. The Murphy Family will be receiving friends on Friday afternoon from 4:30pm-6pm in The Pub at The Abbey at Pawleys Island. * A Second Memorial Service Celebrating the Life and Legacy of The Right Reverend Charles H. Murphy, III hosted by The Anglican Church in the Americas will be held at another time, date and place to be determined. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to The Abbey at Pawleys, 46 Gathering Lane, Pawleys Island, SC 29585

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The Right Reverend Charles Hurt Murphy III

December 6, 1947 - January 9, 2018