Black Bishop Appointed Archbishop of Atlanta
<i> Reuters</i>
ATLANTA —
Bishop James Lyke, the 52-year-old black monk who has run the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Atlanta since Archbishop Eugene Marino resigned amid a sex scandal last year, was named archbishop Tuesday. The action by Pope John Paul II, expected since the Vatican appointed Lyke apostolic administrator of 175,000 Catholics in northern Georgia last July, made him the highest-ranking black clergyman in the country.
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