Father Ray Mukada is a character on the HBO television series Oz, played by B. D. Wong. Oz is an American Television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes Bradley Darryl “BD” Wong (born October 24, 1960) is an American Tony Award -winning Actor, best-known for his role in the Broadway

B. D. Wong as Father Ray Mukada.

Character History

Father Ray Mukada is the chaplain of Oswald State Penitentiary, also known as Oz. He is a Catholic priest who graduated at the top of his class at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites in particular rites of sacrifice to and propitiation of a deity or deities Pontifical Gregorian University (Pontificia Università Gregoriana (also known as the Gregorianum) is a Pontifical university located in Rome, Italy Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 He was initially serving under Cardinal Francis Abgott (Gavin MacLeod) who called him his "Great Yellow Hope". Gavin MacLeod (born February 28, 1930) is an American Actor most notable for playing Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Unfortunately, Abgott's extremely conservative views clashed with Mukada's more idealistic ones. After disagreeing with the Cardinal a few times too often, he was transferred to Oz, which "extinguished" his career as a priest. He works alongside of Sister Pete to try and help the prisoners in Oz. Although Father Ray Mukada and the Christian group have some issues about religion in the series, Father Ray still tries his hardest to make life in Oz a little easier for the inmates. He has been noted for several attempts to try and straighten up the inmates from drug addictions, murders, etc. He is still the main religious authority in Oz.