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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Archbishop Wilton Daniel Gregory was born in | ||||||
| 3 | Chicago in 1947; he attended St. Carthage Grammar School, | ||||||
| 4 | Quigley Preparatory Seminary South, Niles College of Loyola | ||||||
| 5 | University, and St. Mary of the Lake Seminary; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Archbishop Wilton Gregory was ordained a priest | ||||||
| 7 | of the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1973 and later returned to | ||||||
| 8 | Illinois after earning a doctorate in sacred liturgy in Rome; | ||||||
| 9 | and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Archbishop Wilton Gregory served as an associate | ||||||
| 11 | pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Glenview, as a | ||||||
| 12 | faculty member of St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, | ||||||
| 13 | and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Archbishop Wilton Gregory served as the seventh | ||||||
| 15 | bishop of the Diocese of Belleville for 11 years; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, From 2001 to 2004, Archbishop Wilton Gregory | ||||||
| 17 | served as the first African American president of the United | ||||||
| 18 | States Conference of Catholic Bishops; he also implemented the | ||||||
| 19 | Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People; and
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| 20 | WHEREAS, In 2006, Archbishop Wilton Gregory was inducted | ||||||
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| 1 | into the Martin Luther King Board of Preachers at Morehouse | ||||||
| 2 | College in Atlanta; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, From 2005 to 2019, Archbishop Wilton Gregory | ||||||
| 4 | served as the archbishop of Atlanta and led that archdiocese | ||||||
| 5 | through a period of growth; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, In 2019, Archbishop Wilton Gregory was appointed | ||||||
| 7 | the seventh archbishop of Washington, D.C. where he created an | ||||||
| 8 | anti-racism initiative to combat racial injustice; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, Archbishop Wilton Gregory has worked to establish | ||||||
| 10 | truth as the guiding principle for his work as well as that of | ||||||
| 11 | his congregations and communities; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, On October 25, 2020, Pope Francis announced that | ||||||
| 13 | Archbishop Wilton Gregory would be raised to the position of | ||||||
| 14 | cardinal at a consistory on November 28, 2020; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, Archbishop Gregory is the first African American | ||||||
| 16 | cardinal in the history of the Roman Catholic Church; | ||||||
| 17 | therefore, be it
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| 18 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | ||||||
| 19 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we declare November | ||||||
| 20 | 28, 2021 Archbishop Wilton Gregory Day in recognition of his | ||||||
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| 1 | achievements.
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