The Catholic dioceses of the Carolinas and Georgia are experiencing record growth, Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta said during a meeting of the U.S. Catholic Church's Atlanta province.
"We realised that all five of the dioceses represented here have recently opened new chancery offices," Archbishop Gregory said in an interview with The Catholic Miscellany, newspaper of the Diocese of Charleston.
"We are all in a growth mode. That's a good thing," he said during the province's June meeting in Charleston. "We are spending part of our time here talking about the need to establish new parishes, expand pastoral outreach, and respond to growing numbers both from immigration and those moving here from other parts of the country. We all are sharing in this growth."
