The Archdiocese of Atlanta was elevated on February 21, 1962, from the Diocese of Atlanta which was established on July 2, 1956. The archdiocese encompasses 21,445 square miles and comprises 69 counties in north and central Georgia.
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- September 14, 2024ATLANTA—Cathy Schneider and many others kept vigil for countless hours outside of the Atlanta Women’s Center, hoping to encourage pregnant mothers to consider an alternative to abortion.
- September 12, 2024NEW YORK (OSV News)–The passage of 23 years has only strengthened Frank Siller’s resolve that first responders to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the soldiers lost in the war that followed will never be forgotten.
- September 10, 2024WINDER — “I could really use my prayers right now. My school is getting shot up.”
- September 8, 2024JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNS)–Even members of the most remote, smallest and poorest Christian communities are called to share the Gospel and to do so, first, by the way they live, Pope Francis told the Catholics of Indonesia.
- September 6, 2024In October I will return to Vietnam after 31 years to exhume the remains of my mother and oldest brother.
