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• Atlanta

  Archbishop Hartmayer releases statement in wake of racial violence, protests

  

  Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., Archbishop of Atlanta, issued a statement in the wake of several incidents of racial violence and protests which followed.

• Atlanta

  Local Catholic school leaders retiring this year

  

  A school president and three principals are saying goodbye to students, faculty and staff as they close their final administration years in Atlanta Catholic schools.

• Atlanta

  High school seniors, parents reflect on unique school year

  

  The pandemic remade the traditional events marking the end of high school for the class of 2020. Instead of group pictures and senior proms, they ended the year with Zoom classrooms and virtual ceremonies, learning resilience along the way.

• Smyrna

  Atlanta Archbishop announces priest assignments

  

  Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., has announced priest assignments for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, effective on July 1.

• Atlanta

  Compassion Kitchen Project helps restaurant workers, feeds the hungry

  

  Recognizing the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on both the restaurant community and the hungry, parishioners of the Cathedral of Christ the King started The Compassion Kitchen Project.

• Atlanta

  Former parishioners welcome archbishop back home

  

  Beginning in 1995, Archbishop Hartmayer served as pastor of St. Philip Benizi Church for 15 years, then at St. John Vianney in Lithia Springs. Former parishioners recall his collaborative style.

• Atlanta

  The ministry of a Franciscan friar

  

  Archbishop Hartmayer is one of 25 Conventual Franciscan Friars serving as bishops worldwide and one of three in the United States. Franciscans live out their vocations in a variety of ways.

• Atlanta

  Family, friends recall Archbishop Hartmayer’s childhood 

  

  The values taught around the dining room table in his modest home in upstate New York shaped the new Atlanta archbishop’s life.

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