Possessing a master's degree, he became a parson of Wigtown, and on 9 December 1482, he was provided the bishopric of Galloway.
[1] He was consecrated by 9 October 1483, when he appeared before the lords auditors on behalf of his nephew, Patrick Vaus, the future Prior of Whithorn, for whom George was tutor.
[4] In 1504, he became Dean of the Chapel Royal at Stirling, a position which King James IV of Scotland had recently decided to attach permanently to the bishops of Galloway.
[7][8] Bishop George Vaus has been characterized as "a very worldly man who fits easily into the rather distorted stereotype of the late medieval, pre-Reformation cleric.
"[9] He had two illegitimate children: a son Abraham, who was gifted by his father with the lands of Portincalzie in the Rhins of Galloway; and a daughter Margaret, who married Patrick Dunbar of Clugston.