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Archbishop Hartmayer, son of the late John and Sally Hartmayer, was born on Nov. 21, 1951 in Buffalo, New York.
Gregory John Hartmayer OFMConv.

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New Atlanta archbishop has deep roots in Baltimore

Archbishop Gregory Hartmayer, a Conventual Franciscan priest tapped by Pope Francis March 5 to lead the Archdiocese of Atlanta, spent the early years of his ministry in the Baltimore area, serving as a religion teacher, guidance counselor and later principal of Archbishop Curley High School in the late 1970s and 1980s.

Conventual Franciscan Father Donald Grzymski, president of Archbishop Curley High School, attended the seminary with Archbishop Hartmayer in Massachusetts and later worked with him for seven years at Curley.

“I think he always wanted to help people and minister to them. And certainly, being the guidance counselor is a great way of doing that,” Father Grzymski said. “He enjoyed working with young men both on their academic goals, but also on any personal issues that they may have to deal with.”

Pete Eibner, a 1988 Curley graduate, told the Catholic Review that Archbishop Hartmayer “was a major influence getting my troubled youth on the right trajectory.”

In a Facebook post, he noted that the former

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Fr. Gregory John Hartmayer, OFM Conv., son of Sally and the late John W. Hartmayer, was born on November 21, 1951 in Buffalo, New York. Fr. Hartmayer was raised in Tonawanda, New York. a northern suburb of Buffalo and was a member of St. Amelia Catholic Church, where he attended elementary school. Fr. Hartmayer has an older brother C. Douglas, and a younger brother John, both of whom continue to live in Western New York with their families; and sister, Mary Jo Kotacka, who lives with her family in Vienna, Virginia. His mother is living in the family home in Tonawanda, NY.

After graduating from St. Amelia Elementary School, Fr. Hartmayer attended Cardinal O'Hara High School, conducted by the Conventual Franciscan Friars, and graduated in 1969. Upon graduation, Fr. Hartmayer joined the Conventual Franciscan Friars at their Novitiate of St. Joseph Cupertino in Ellicott City, Maryland. He professed his Simple Vows there on August 15, 1970. He then pursued studies at St Hyacinth College and Seminary in Granby, Massachusetts, from which be received a Bachelor of Science degree in philo

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New NCEA chair Archbishop Hartmayer has long history in education: Here are five things to know

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (OSV News) — Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer of Atlanta was elected June 4 to a three-year term as the chair of the board of the National Catholic Educational Association. OSV News sat down with Archbishop Hartmayer, a former principal at Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore, during the U.S. bishops’ plenary assembly in Louisville to talk about Catholic education in the U.S. today. Here are five takeaways:

Archbishop Hartmayer has a lifelong relationship with Catholic education, including as a student, teacher, principal and board member. “I just find Catholic education as such a vital and important part of evangelization and catechesis. And having had the Catholic school experience, both as a student and a teacher and an administrator, I understand it,” he said. “I’ve seen how it can change a person’s life to have a student in front of you five days a week for the whole school year, to have an effect on what you say in