Full Text of SR0143 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Archbishop Wilton Gregory served as the seventh | 15 | | bishop of the Diocese of Belleville for 11 years; and
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Archbishop Gregory is the first African American | 16 | | cardinal in the history of the Roman Catholic Church; | 17 | | therefore, be it
| 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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