Archbishop of Atlanta to chair National Catholic Educational Association board of directors – Catholic Telegraph

Hartmayer holds three master’s degrees: a master’s degree in divinity from St. Anthony-on-Hudson in Rensselaer, New York; a Master of Arts in Pastoral Counseling from Emmanuel College in Boston; and a Master of Education from Boston College – in addition to a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from St. Hyacinth College and Seminary in Massachusetts.

A member of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, a religious community founded by St. Francis of Assisi, Hartmayer has served as archbishop of Atlanta since May 2020, following his service as bishop of Savannah, Georgia, beginning in 2011.

Hartmayer has worked in Catholic education since the beginning of his priesthood. He was a guidance counselor and then principal at Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore from 1985 to 1987. In 1988, he was named principal at Cardinal O’Hara in Tonawanda, New York, and then served as principal at St. Francis in Hamburg, New York, until 1994.

He spent many years in New York and Massachusetts, but in 1995 he moved south to teach at a Catholic high school in Florida before being invited to serve as pastor of St. Philip Benizi Church in Jonesboro, in Georgia, where he served for 15 years. as a pastor.

Hartmayer currently serves as Chairman of the USCCB Communications Subcommittee and is a member of the Board of Directors of CLINICAL. He made headlines earlier this year for defending the interests of an intellectually disabled Georgian sentenced to death.