George Rath

George Edward Rath (March 29, 1913 – November 18, 1995) was the seventh Bishop of Newark.

Biography Rath was born in Buffalo, New York, and ordained as a deacon in 1938. He received his undergraduate degree cum laude from Harvard University in 1933, and a master of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in 1936. He was ordained as a priest in 1939 for the Diocese of New York where he served as college chaplain for Columbia University and New York University.

He was elected coadjutor bishop on May 2, 1970. He became diocesan bishop in 1974 and retired in 1978. As bishop, he championed the causes of the civil rights movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, and prayer book reform.

He and his wife, Margaret, had two children.