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Ecclesiastical Province of Atlanta. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Atlanta is the Ordinary of the Archdiocese of Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States.. As a metropolitan bishop, the archbishop oversees the entire Ecclesiastical Province of Atlanta which spans the states of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, and consists of the dioceses of Charleston, Charlotte, Raleigh ...
In 2002 he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he became Rector of St Paul's Episcopal Church. [2] Wright was elected Bishop of Atlanta on June 2, 2012, and was consecrated on October 13, 2012, in the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori. [3]
The pope designated the Co-Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta as the cathedral church of the new diocese and named Auxiliary Bishop Francis Hyland of Savannah-Atlanta as the first bishop. [1] [9] Hyland retired in 1961 due to poor health. On February 10, 1962, Pope John XXIII elevated the
Gregory John Hartmayer, O.F.M. Conv. (born November 21, 1951) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.A Conventual Friar Minor, he serves as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta in Georgia, having returned to the archdiocese where he worked from 1995 to 2011.
On May 15, 2017, Pope Francis appointed Shlesinger as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. [3] [5] He was consecrated by Cardinal Wilton Gregory at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta on July 19, 2017, with Bishops Michael Francis Burbidge and Luis Rafael Zarama Pasqualetto serving as co-consecrators.
Alexander was elected and ordained bishop of Atlanta in 2001, and was nominated for Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in 2006. The Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts-Schori was elected, the first woman to hold the position. As the bishop of an owning diocese of the University of the South, he served as chancellor from 2009 to 2012. [2]
Coat of arms as archbishop of Atlanta. John Paul II named Gregory as the seventh archbishop of Atlanta on December 9, 2004. [12] His installation took place on January 17, 2005. [13] He was the third African-American archbishop in the United States; the first two men, Eugene A. Marino and James P. Lyke, were also archbishops of Atlanta. [14]
Konzen's administrator responsibilities ended on May 6, 2020, with the installation of Bishop Gregory Hartmayer as the new archbishop of Atlanta. The Bishop Joel Konzen School was founded in 2021 at the Pope Francis School and Health Center in Avenui, Ghana. [5]