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St. Francis de Sales is a Latin Rite parish serving the Archdiocese of Atlanta, which was separated in 1956 from the Diocese of Savannah. Permission for Mass according to the rubrics of 1962 was initially given by Archbishop James P. Lyke and renewed by Archbishop John Francis Donoghue. The reinstatement of the Rite began at Holy Spirit parish ...
Bishop John England of the Diocese of Charleston, which encompassed Savannah, consecrated the new church April 1, 1839. Pope Pius IX established the Diocese of Savannah in July 1850. The new Cathedral was planned in 1870 under Savannah's fourth Bishop, The Right Reverend Ignatius Persico.
The diocese was founded in 1850 as the Diocese of Savannah, covering all of Georgia and part of Florida. From 1937 to 1956, it was the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta. In 1956, it became the Diocese of Savannah again when northern Georgia was split off into the Diocese of Atlanta. Plaque in St. John the Baptist Basilica listing the bishops of Savannah.
An additional funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. April 18 at the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist in Savannah. Interment will be at 12:30 p.m. at the Catholic Cemetery in Savannah.
Most use a pre-1970 edition of the Roman Missal, usually 1962 Missal, but some follow other Latin liturgical rites and thus celebrate not the Tridentine Mass but a form of liturgy permitted under the 1570 papal bull Quo primum. The use of a pre-1970 Roman Missal has never been prohibited by the Catholic Church. Despite never being suppressed by ...
On July 2, 1956, Pope Pius XII erected the Diocese of Atlanta, taking northern Georgia from what now became the Diocese of Savannah . [1] 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.
In September 2020, Stephen Parkes and the diocese were sued by William Fred Baker Jr. Baker said that the diocese knew that Reverend Wayland Brown was molesting him in 1987 and 1988 when he was a 10-year-old attending St. James Catholic School in Savannah. Brown received a 20-year sentence for sexual abuse crimes. [11]
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