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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.
The Episcopal Diocese of Georgia, USA is one of 20 dioceses that comprise Province IV of the US Episcopal Church, and is a diocese within the worldwide Anglican Communion. The current bishop is Frank S. Logue , who succeeded Scott Anson Benhase on May 30, 2020, when he was consecrated 11th bishop of Georgia at a service held in Christ Church in ...
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]
The Archdiocese of Atlanta covers 69 counties in northern Georgia. The cathedral is the metropolitan see of the Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Atlanta, which covers Georgia, [1] South Carolina, and North Carolina. It includes the following suffragan dioceses: Diocese of Savannah; Diocese of Charleston; Diocese of Raleigh; Diocese of Charlotte
Joseph Schwartzburt, Savannah Morning News December 22, 2023 at 5:15 AM Pope Francis with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI as he pays him a visit after the Consistory, with the newly elevated Cardinals ...
For example, the Church of England's first outpost in what is now Georgia was in Savannah, hence the Diocese of Georgia is based in Savannah. There are, however, many dioceses named for their see city or another city in the diocese. A few are named for a river, island, valley or other geographical feature.
The Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist is a Roman Catholic cathedral and minor basilica near Lafayette Square at 222 East Harris Street, Savannah, Georgia, in the United States. It is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah.
When Bishop Thomas A. Becker was appointed bishop of Savannah in 1886, Keiley asked the Vatican to be incardinated, or transferred, to the same diocese. He served as vicar general and pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish in Atlanta until 1896. [1] He was rector of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah from 1896 to 1900. [4]