The new Reverend and Mrs. Marcellus Alexander Norris,  are pictured at their reception Saturday, December 21, 2002, following their wedding earlier that day in which the groom's father, Bishop Richard Franklin Norris, was joined by Bishops Zedekiah L. Grady and Bishop Philip R. Cousin Sr. in performing the ceremony.

1st Episcopal District
Rev. Marcellus Norris joins Dawn Elizabeth Murray in Holy Matrimony 

By Rev. John H. Fisher
Editor and Publisher
A.M.E. Today 

It was one of the largest weddings Philadelphia has seen in some time when Rev. Marcellus Alexander Norris took Dawn Elizabeth Murray for  his wife.  

Three Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church participated in the ceremony, including the groom's father Bishop Richard Franklin Norris, Presiding Prelate of the 14th Episcopal District.  

Bishop Norris was joined by fellow Bishops the Right Reverend  Zedekiah L. Grady, of the host 1st Episcopal District and Bishop Philip R. Cousin, Presiding Prelate of the 4th Episcopal District and former Bishop of the 1st. 

Also participating was the Reverend Ellis Washington, Pastor of St. Matthew A.M.E. Church where the ceremony was held.

The bride is the daughter of Juretha  P.  and Henry J. Murray and the groom the son of the aforementioned Bishop Richard Franklin and Mother Mary Ann Norris.  Rev. Marcellus Norris is the Pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church in West Chester, Pa.

The newly weds cut and feed each other the cake

The parents of the new couple Bishop Richard Norris and his wife Mother Mary Norris and Mr. Henry Murray and his wife Dee Murray

Henry and Dee Murray and their daughter Dawn, the bride, on the reception line after the wedding