George Nelson Hunt III (December 6, 1931 – October 23, 2022)[1] was the Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island from 1980 to 1994.
In June 1955, he married Barbara Noel Plamp, with whom he had three children.
[2] In 1956, he was appointed vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Gillette, Wyoming and in 1957, additionally, he became a priest in charge of St. John's Church in Upton, Wyoming, adding in 1959 the additional responsibilities of the priest in charge of St. Francis Church, Wright, Wyoming.
In 1960, he was appointed assistant priest at St. Paul's Church in Oakland, California and was in that post, when in 1962 he was called to be rector of St. Alban's Church, Worland, Wyoming.
[4] In 1994, he left Rhode Island to serve as interim bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii until his retirement in 1996.