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 3, 2025ATLANTA—For more than two years, tents, tarps and other make-shift shelters filled the sidewalks on Martin Luther King Jr Drive alongside the Shrine of Immaculate Conception, one of the oldest parishes in the Archdiocese of Atlanta.
- September 1, 2025NEW ORLEANS (OSV News)–In late 2005, just two months after Hurricane Katrina, the American Institute of Architects tabbed Boston-based urban planner David Dixon, to organize a national recovery conference with the goal of providing a roadmap.
- August 30, 2025The Louisiana native was a force in the cooperative movement and addressing Black land loss, before transitioning to chancery ministry in Atlanta.
- August 28, 2025ATLANTA—Patrick Blonski, 34, of Atlanta, knows a thing or two about the film-making industry.
