Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The church, originally known as Our Lady of Lourdes Colored Mission, was built as a three-story combination church and school, and Lissner served as its first priest. [3] At the time, it was the second Catholic mission intended to serve African Americans in Georgia and the first in Atlanta. [ 3 ]
Black Atlantans who were born and raised in the City of Atlanta proper have always had a small Black Catholic presence in the city dating from the early 1900s with the establishment of Black parishes such as Our Lady of Lourdes (founded in 1912) and Saint Paul of the Cross that was founded in the 1950s.
Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church Brookhaven: 1957 [14] 1954 St. Paul of the Cross Catholic Church Atlanta 1957 [15] 1958 Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church Atlanta 2006 [16] 1959 Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church Decatur 1959 [17] 1960 St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church Atlanta 1962 [18] 1960 St. Luke the Evangelist Catholic ...
The African-American Catholic Congregation and its Imani Temples are an Independent Catholic church founded by Archbishop George Augustus Stallings Jr., an Afrocentrist and former Catholic priest, in Washington, D.C. Stallings left the Catholic Church in 1989 and was excommunicated in 1990. [1]
Bishop Oliver Clyde Allen III has a theory: Churches that oppress LGBTQI+ people are not churches. Atlanta queer-friendly Black church is source of solace for LGBTQ youth: 'I look over and see my ...
Tim Kaine says the experience of attending a predominately black church revealed a contrast between his life and that of millions of minority Americans.
Knights of Peter Claver - Founded in 1909 by members of Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Mobile, Alabama, as a Black Catholic fraternal order, as Blacks were barred from the Knights of Columbus due to their race. Among the founders were The Rev. John H. Dorsey (the second Black Catholic priest ordained in the US), many White priests ...
Eugene Antonio Marino, SSJ (May 29, 1934 – November 12, 2000) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Atlanta from 1988 until 1990. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington from 1974 to 1988.