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Michael Joseph Keyes, S.M. (February 28, 1876 – August 7, 1959) was an Irish-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of Savannah in Georgia from 1922 to 1935. He previously served as director of Marist College at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
In this photo from 2014, the Rev. Michael Ingram, pastor of St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church, officially opens the doors to the new parish church for the first time as Diocese of Savannah ...
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.
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.
Pages in category "Roman Catholic bishops of Savannah, Georgia" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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]
Boland was appointed pastor in 1967 of St. Michael Parish in Tybee Island, Georgia, staying there until 1968. In 1970, the bishop named him rector of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. Boland was transferred in 1972 to Blessed Sacrament Parish in Savannah.
On June 20, 1927, Walsh was appointed the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Charleston by Pope Pius XI. [2] He received his episcopal consecration on September 8, 1927, from Bishop Michael Keyes, with Bishops Patrick Barry and William Hafey serving as co-consecrators, at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah. [2]