The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Atlanta is the Ordinary of the

Archdiocese of Atlanta In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...

, Georgia in the

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. As a

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, the archbishop oversees the entire Ecclesiastical Province of Atlanta which spans the states of

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and

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, and consists of the

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s of Charleston,

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, and Savannah. The archbishop's seat is located in the Cathedral of Christ the King. The chancery, where the archbishop has his office, is located in the Atlanta suburb of Smyrna. Until 21 May 2019, when he was installed as the Archbishop of Washington, the archdiocese was led by Wilton D. Gregory, who was installed as the seventh bishop and sixth archbishop of Atlanta on 17 January 2005. He previously served as Bishop of Belleville in

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List of Archbishops of Atlanta

The following is a list of the Roman Catholic Archbishops of Atlanta and their terms of service. #

Francis Edward Hyland Francis Edward Hyland (October 9, 1901 – January 31, 1968) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of what was then the Diocese of Atlanta in Georgia from 1956 to 1961. He previously served as an auxiliary ...

(Bishop, 1956-1962) #

Paul John Hallinan Paul John Hallinan (April 8, 1911 – March 27, 1968) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Charleston (1958–1962) and Archbishop of Atlanta (1962–68). He was known as a champion of racial equalit ...

(1962-1968) #

Thomas Andrew Donnellan Thomas Andrew Donnellan (January 24, 1914 – October 15, 1987) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the ninth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg, Diocese of Ogdensberg in New York from 1964 to 1968, an ...

(1968-1987) #

Eugene Antonio Marino Eugene Antonio Marino, SSJ (May 29, 1934 – November 12, 2000) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Atlanta, Georgia from 1988 until 1990, becoming the first African American archbishop in history. He was also the firs ...

(1988-1990) #

James Patterson Lyke James Patterson Lyke, O.F.M. (February 18, 1939 – December 27, 1992) was an African-American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Atlanta from 1991 to 1992. He was the second-ever Black archbishop in America. Biograp ...

(1991-1992) #

John Francis Donoghue John Francis Donoghue (August 9, 1928 – November 11, 2011) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the second bishop of the Diocese of Charlotte in North Carolina from 1984 to 1993 and as the fifth archbishop of the ...

(1993-2004) #

Wilton Daniel Gregory Wilton Daniel Gregory (born December 7, 1947) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who is the archbishop of Washington, US. Pope Francis elevated him to the rank of cardinal on November 28, 2020. He is the first African-American card ...

(2005-2019) #

Gregory John Hartmayer Gregory John Hartmayer, O.F.M. Conv. (born November 21, 1951) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. A Conventual Franciscan, he serves as the archbishop of Atlanta in Georgia, having returned to the archdiocese where he worked fr ...

(2020-)

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