George Avis Fulcher


George Avis Fulcher was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana from 1983 to 1984.

Biography

George Avis Fulcher was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1944 in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus. He moved throughout the Ohio area throughout his pastoral career. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Columbus in 1976; that same year he was appointed Titular Bishop of Morosbisdus.
In 1983, Fulcher was appointed by Pope John Paul II bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana. Within three weeks of his installation as Bishop, he was appointed to the US Bishops' Committee for the implementation of the Pastoral Letter on Peace. While driving to a conference on to lecture on the Peace Pastoral on January 25, 1984, Bishop Fulcher died when his car crashed off US-41 at Gobbler's Knob north of Rockville. Fulcher served as bishop of the Lafayette diocese for only about one year. He was 62 years old at the time of his death.

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