William Murphy (Bishop of Saginaw)

William Francis Murphy ( born May 11, 1885 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, † February 7, 1950 ) was a Roman Catholic bishop.

Murphy attended the Lefevre Institute in Kalamazoo and the St. Jerome College and Assumption College in Ontario, Canada. Then he went to the Pontifical North American College in Rome. There he received on 13 June 1908 in St. John Lateran Basilica to the priesthood. After his return to the United States he became active in the Archdiocese of Detroit.

Pope Pius XI. appointed Murphy on March 17, 1938 the first bishop of the new Diocese of Saginaw. He received his episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of Detroit, Edward Aloysius Mooney, on 17 May of the same year. Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Buffalo, John Aloysius Duffy, and the Bishop of Marquette, Joseph Casimir Plagens.