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John Paul II named Gregory as the seventh archbishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta on December 9, 2004. [14] His installation took place on January 17, 2005. [15] He was the third African-American archbishop in the US; the first two, Eugene A. Marino and James P. Lyke, were also archbishops of Atlanta. [16]
The archbishop of Washington, D.C., made history on Saturday by becoming the first African-American cardinal of the Catholic Church. Wilton Gregory, 72, was one of 13 men installed as princes of ...
On May 24, 2019, after the installation of Gregory as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, the college of consultors in Atlanta elected Konzen as the administrator of the archdiocese. Konzen's administrator responsibilities ended on May 6, 2020, with the installation of Bishop Gregory Hartmayer as the new archbishop of Atlanta.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red hat.
His installation took place at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul on March 22 of that year. [ 9 ] He was the first Polish American to become an archbishop , and, at age 50, was the youngest Catholic archbishop in the country at the time. [ 3 ]
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Archbishop Gregory (secular name George Sergeyevich Afonsky, Russian: Георгий Серге́евич Афонский; April 17, 1925 – April 15, 2008) was the Archbishop of Sitka and Alaska from 1973 to 1995, and author of books on Theology and Eastern Orthodoxy in North America in both Russian and English.
Installation is a Christian liturgical act that formally allows a cleric to assume the office of his appointed position at a particular place such as a cathedral.