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For Atlanta, “Habemus Friar” – In US Docket’s “Crown,” Pope Sends Franciscan To Atlanta

Just a couple years ago, upon inheriting one of the great estates of American literature, the leadership of a booming Atlanta church aimed to build its Archbishop a mansion commensurate with Catholicism’s newfound status in the Capital of the South….

Not long after it emerged, a public outcry nipped the Smyrna Chancery’s designs of grandeur in the bud. Only now, however, is the Pope set to finish the job, placing “Tara” – the crown jewel of the current US docket – into the keep of a Conventual Franciscan more used to sleeping at a Hampton Inn.

At Roman Noon Thursday, Whispers ops indicate that Francis will name Bishop Gregory Hartmayer OFM Conv., the 68 year-old head of Georgia’s southern diocese at Savannah, as the Seventh Archbishop of Atlanta, his adopted home – a 69-county fold now comprising to 1.2 million Catholics – where the Buffalo-born friar led parishes for a decade and a half until being given the hat in 2011. (Above, Hartmayer is seen with his Savannah predecessor, Bishop Kevin Boland, checking phone-shots after the Pope left his speech to the US bishops at Washington’s St Matthew’s Cathedral in 2015.)

Praise the Lord

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