| Type: | Bishop |
| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
| George D. Young III | |
| Bishop of East Tennessee | |
| Church: | Episcopal Church |
| Diocese: | East Tennessee |
| Elected: | February 12, 2011 |
| Term: | 2011–2017 |
| Retired: | --> |
| Predecessor: | Charles G. vonRosenberg |
| Successor: | Brian Lee Cole |
| Ordination: | 1990 |
| Ordained By: | Frank S. Cerveny |
| Consecration: | June 25, 2011 |
| Consecrated By: | Katharine Jefferts Schori |
| Birth Date: | 28 September 1955 |
| Birth Place: | Jacksonville, Florida, United States |
| Spouse: | Kathryn Mary Beich |
| Children: | 2 |
George Dibrell Young III (born September 28, 1955) was the fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee from 2011 until 2017.
Young was born on September 28, 1955, in Jacksonville, Florida. He studied at the Florida State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1978. In 1981 he married the now-Reverend Kathryn Mary Young (nee Beich) and together had two children. He then enrolled at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, from which he graduated with a Master of Divinity in 1990.[1]
Young was ordained deacon and priest in 1990 by the Bishop of Florida, Frank S. Cerveny. He then became assistant at St. Giles' Church in Northbrook, Illinois, and director of religious education. In 1994 he returned to Florida and became rector of St. Elizabeth's Church in Jacksonville, Florida. In 1997, he became rector of St Peter’s Church in Fernandina Beach, Florida, where he remained until 2011.[2]
On February 12, 2011, Young was elected as the fourth Bishop of East Tennessee and was consecrated on June 25, 2011, by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori at the Church of the Ascension in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was formally installed at St John’s Cathedral, Knoxville, Tennessee, the next day, on June 26, 2011.[3] He retired in December 2017.[4]