What Is Rupert Murdoch Religion?

Rupert Murdoch was born on March 11, 1931, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to Sir Keith Murdoch (1885-1952) and Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (née Greene; 1909-2012). Rupert Murdoch is of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Murdoch’s parents were also born in Melbourne, and his grandfather was a Presbyterian minister. Keith Murdoch was a war correspondent who later became a regional newspaper magnate with two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio station in a remote mining town, as well as the chairman of the powerful Herald and Weekly Times publishing company. Keith Rupert later chose to use his maternal grandfather’s first name as his middle name. Janet Calvert-Jones, Anne Kantor, and Helen Handbury were Rupert Murdoch’s three sisters.

Rupert Murdoch returned from Oxford to take over the family business after his father died when he was 21 years old. After his father’s Herald stake was liquidated to pay taxes, what was left was News Limited, which had been founded in 1923. Rupert Murdoch’s main asset, the Adelaide newspaper The News, became a huge success. Rupert Murdoch began to focus his efforts on acquisition and expansion, purchasing the troubled Sunday Times in Perth, Western Australia (1956) and acquiring suburban and provincial newspapers in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and the Northern Territory over the next few years, including the Sydney afternoon tabloid The Daily Mirror.

What Is Rupert Murdoch’s Religion?

Rupert Murdoch is a devout Christian.