Saturday, October 13, 2012
Rev. Robert Wright from St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Peyton Rd., becomes the first African-American Atlanta diocese bishop.
Saturday morning inside Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College, Reverend Robert Wright becomes the first African-American bishop of the Atlanta Episcopal diocese, and the 10th bishop overall. The Atlanta diocese covers middle and north Georgia, has 96 parishes and 52,000 members. Reverend Wright had been at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Peyton Road in Southwest Atlanta for 10 years and in that time he is credited for raising the churches attendance numbers to some of the highest among all U.S. Episcopal churches. When Reverend Wright was first elected as bishop, early this past summer, Cascade Patch attended St. Paul's and recorded portions of his sermon. Saturday at 10 a.m. will be the next phase of a long …
Monday, June 4, 2012
Photos from Rev. Wright's first sermon since being elected as the next Episcopal Bishop of Atlanta.
Sunday, June 3rd 2012 turned out to be a momentous day for the leader of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Southwest Atlanta. This was not to be his last sermon to his growing congregation, but it was the first sermon since he was announced as the next Episcopal Church Bishop of Atlanta. The Very Reverend Robert Wright will be the Episcopal church's 10th bishop and the first ever African-American. The St. Paul's congregation stood up and gave him a round of applause to both congratulate him and thank him for the 10 years of service that he gave to their church. Rev. Wright said, "only God, could have made this happen." He told his congregation that the work of St. Paul's "must carry on. Leaders come and go, you must turn the page and …
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Reverend Robert Wright is currently the rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on Peyton Road.
Reverend Robert Wright has been rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on Peyton Road in southwest Atlanta for the past 10 years and has now been elected the 10th bishop and first African-American bishop of The Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta. Personally, Rev. Wright has been a family friend and mentor over the past 10 years and I congratulate him for being voted into his new post. He has always been a man of great wisdom, and has a gift for talking to young people about the teachings and works of Jesus Christ. According to today's AJC article: "The Very Rev. Robert C. “Rob” Wright, 48, will take over as leader in Atlanta, the ninth largest among the Episcopal Church’s 110 dioceses, in October. The Atlanta diocese, which covers middle and …
