Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Below is the list of parks in Columbus, Georgia, United States (this list includes parks, as well as recreation centers, senior centers, and state parks): [1]
During the diocesan convention of 1954 seventeen persons were nominated to succeed Barnwell. Even with the large field of candidates, Albert Rhett Stuart, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans, was elected on the second ballot and was consecrated as the sixth Bishop of the Diocese of Georgia in St. Paul's Church, Augusta, on October 20 ...
A few dioceses bear the names of two cities, variously reflecting a shift in the major center of population, e.g., the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston; future plan to divide a diocese, e.g., the former Diocese of Reno-Las Vegas; union of two former dioceses, e.g., the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph; political expedience, e.g., the ...
The Black Heritage Trail is a National Recreation Trail located in Columbus, Georgia. [1] [2] The trail received National Recreation Trail Designation from the Secretary of the Interior during a 2000 ceremony at the historic Liberty Theater. The ceremony paid tribute to Ms. Judith Grant, a Black Heritage Trail organizer and local historian.
He also established The Georgia Bulletin, the weekly archdiocesan newspaper. [12] Hallinan died in 1968. The second archbishop of Atlanta was Thomas Donnellan from the Diocese of Ogdensburg, named by Pope Paul VI in 1968. [13] During Donnellan's 19-year tenure, the number of Catholics in north Georgia rose from 50,000 in 1968 to over 133,000 by ...
In February 2020, the diocese announced the closure of two diocesan retreat centers, St. Therese's in Columbus and Sts. Peter and Paul in Newark. The shuttering was due to dwindling use in part because of more parishes having parish centers, newer non-diocesan facilities being built, and the necessity of repairs at both sites. Sts.
In addition to erecting several churches, schools, orphanages, and hospitals, he opened a men's college at Macon, Georgia, introduced the Jesuits and Benedictines to the diocese, and established a diocesan newspaper, The Southern Cross, in 1875.
Columbus Georgia Consolidated Government; Columbus entry in the New Georgia Encyclopedia "Columbus, a city and the county-seat of Muscogee county, Georgia, U.S.A." . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. "Columbus. A city and county-seat of Muscogee County, Georgia" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.