Bernard James Murphy (27 December 1918 – 22 May 1974) was a

Canadian Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...

-born

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

bishop. Murphy was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1944 and served as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton in

Bermuda Bermuda is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. Bermuda is an ...

from 1967 to 1974.Catholic Hierarchy
/ref>

References

1918 births Bermudian Roman Catholic bishops 20th-century Canadian Roman Catholic priests 1974 deaths Resurrectionist Congregation 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in British Overseas Territories Roman Catholic bishops of Hamilton in Bermuda {{Canada-RC-bishop-stub