SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — A special tradition continued Friday at one of Savannah’s most historic churches. Parishioners gathered at St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church on Good Friday for a ...

Nearly 140 years ago, Benedictine monks established St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church in Savannah - Georgia's oldest Catholic Church established for newly freed African-Americans - and in 1914 ...

It was the Catholic church that opened doors to a powerful education, even though they were to segregated classrooms, inside parish churches. It took until the mid-20th century to open St. Pius X ...

Pope Benedict XVI has chosen a metro Atlanta priest to be the new bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah, which governs parishes in 90 south Georgia counties.

A Conventual Franciscan, Hartmayer, 68, has served as Savannah's 14th bishop since Pope Benedict XVI appointed him to head that diocese July 19, 2011.

SAVANNAH, GA-- Savannah's Catholic community is awarding its highest honors. At the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Bishop Kevin Boland presented 76 south Georgia residents with the Gartland ...

Twice a week, Luisa Arguello and her husband spend from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. praying in the perpetual adoration chapel at St. Benedict Catholic Church, tucked on a quiet palm-fringed residential ...

On July 19, Pope Benedict XVI appointed 59-year-old Father Gregory Hartmayer, OFM Conv., to lead the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia.

HORACE, N.D. - As the sun set on the prairie Tuesday, about 50 French descendants settled into the pews of St. Benedict's Catholic Church here to celebrate the church's 100th birthday.

Pope Francis Thursday appointed Bishop Gregory Hartmayer of Savannah to be the next archbishop of Atlanta, Georgia.