Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
The Archdiocese of Atlanta (Latin: Archdiœcesis Atlantensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in northern Georgia in United States. The archdiocese is led by a prelate archbishop , who also serves as pastor of the mother church , the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta. [ 1 ]
The Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta, Georgia (United States) is the mother-church for the one million members of the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta.The cathedral is located at what is popularly called "Jesus Junction" on Peachtree Road, between East Wesley Road and Peachtree Road, in Atlanta's uptown Buckhead district.
Atlanta: 1869 [2] 1874 Sacred Heart Church Milledgeville [3] 1880 Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: Atlanta 1897 [4] 1903 St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church Atlanta 1911 [5] 1906 St. Joseph Catholic Church Marietta: 1952 [6] 1912 Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church: Atlanta 1960 [7] 1936 Cathedral of Christ the King: Atlanta 1937 [8] 1936
Following the return of the church to archdiocese control, the chancellor of Atlanta recommended changes to the church to attract tourists while still maintaining their community outreach efforts. [57] John Adamski was appointed priest by the archdiocese in 1988 and set about making largescale changes to the church. [60]
The pastor of any particular church other than an ordinariate must be episcopally ordained, but his title conforms to that of his jurisdiction: the pastor of an archdiocese is an archbishop, the pastor of a diocese is a bishop, the pastor of an archeparchy is an archeparch, the pastor of an eparchy is an eparch, and the pastor of an exarchate is an exarch.
The church had no resident priest and was served by a visiting priest from the Atlanta Archdiocese. By the 1900s the Catholic population outgrew the building and the congregation started seeking a new site. The present church was built in 1930 on North Broad Street at a cost of thirty thousand dollars.
On April 10, 1990, the government of Atlanta declared the church a Landmark Building, a designation to promote historic preservation in the city. [34] On June 12, 1995, [35] Mother Teresa visited the church during a trip to Atlanta and took Mass while there. [33] Several years later, the church celebrated its 100th anniversary with a Mass on ...