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Family Shares Roots Of Archbishop’s Faith
January 20, 2005Elaine Swenson recalled how her brother Archbishop Wilton Gregory liked as a boy to convert the kitchen table to an altar and say Mass. “So we kind of had an inkling” of his vocation to the priesthood, she said with a smile. And his eighth-grade teacher at St. Carthage School in Chicago had told her […]
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Services Begin With Archbishop Speaking To His Priests
January 20, 2005In his opening words to the priests of the archdiocese, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory said that this was a time for hope and promised to work with them in collaboration and respect and to offer them the love of a bishop for his priests. Acknowledging that the welcoming of a new archbishop has its awkwardness […]
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‘Priests And Bishop Of Atlanta Bring Our Hopes Together In Prayer Around This Altar This Evening’
January 20, 2005Archbishop Gregory’s Vespers Homily To The Priests Of The Archdiocese The Archdiocese of Atlanta is still a young enough See that a few of you here present may have witnessed this night or a similar such event for each one of my predecessors. A few of you were here at the very beginning, when Bishop […]
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Thousands Share In Grace, Excitement Of Installation
January 20, 2005People from across the Atlanta Archdiocese and beyond gathered at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park, joyful to be present to witness the beginning of Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory’s ministry as shepherd to North Georgia Catholics. Dressed in the regalia of the Knights of Peter Claver, Thomas M. Brito, a parishioner at St. […]
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‘The Rich Opportunity To Serve This Growing, Exciting, And Youthful Church In Atlanta’
January 20, 2005Archbishop Gregory’s Homily For The Installation Mass Mis queridos hermanos y hermanas en Cristo, Quisiera dirigir mis saludos primeros a la Iglesia local de Atlanta, especialmente a los que se sienten mas cómodos hablarle a Dios en español. Ahora que estamos reunidos alrededor de la mesa del Señor, en esta misa de instalación, quiero hacerles […]
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Old Friends Gather To Share Celebration In Atlanta
January 20, 2005In the late 1970s as a young priest and student in Rome, Father Wilton Gregory could often be seen blending in with other Italians, zipping around the city on his Vespa scooter. Msgr. James Margason, Archbishop Gregory’s vicar general in the Diocese of Belleville, Ill., recalls fondly his time spent with the future archbishop while […]
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Archbishop’s First Atlanta Mass Honors Dr. King
January 20, 2005It was a day to celebrate the past and present as Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory celebrated his first archdiocesan Mass in honor of the man who touched the world, his life and the life of the city he is now calling home. On Saturday, Jan. 15, two days before his installation as archbishop of Atlanta, […]
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Weigel Says Next Papal Conclave Will Choose Leader For Church And For Entire World
January 20, 2005Although his topic was what issues Pope John Paul II’s successor will face, George Weigel told a Washington audience that after an eight-day visit to Rome he is convinced that as the pope, who is 84 and in frail health, enters the 27th year of his pontificate he is still in full control of the […]
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Coat Of Arms Reflects Archbishop’s Catholic Heritage
January 20, 2005Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory’s personal coat of arms is not only a reflection of his life experiences and identity but also of his particular preparation to shepherd the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Archbishop Gregory’s archiepiscopal heraldic achievement, or coat of arms, joins elements of his personal arms with the coat of arms of the Atlanta Archdiocese, […]
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Archdiocese’s History Shows Strong Faith, Growth
January 20, 2005From a simple log church in Locust Grove, Ga., where the faithful worshipped in 1790, the Catholic population in North Georgia has experienced steady growth. By 1820 the Catholic population had grown to 1,000 in the Carolinas and Georgia under the leadership of Bishop John England. At the time of the Civil War, there were […]