Henry Berrien Zettler, former Atlanta resident will be ordained to the priesthood in Rome, Italy on Saturday. A graduate of Marist College, class of 1953, Father Zettler is a member of the Marist Fathers who conduct the Marist School on Ashford-Dunwoody Road.

Aloysius Cardinal Fraglia, pro-vicar of the Holy Father for the Diocese of Rome will officiate. The ceremonies will take place in St. John Lateran Church in Rome, Italy. Father Zettler will celebrate his first Mass on Sunday in the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Rome.

Mrs. Elizabeth Conway, mother of Father Zettler, and John Conway, sophomore at Marist and half brother of the new priest, left Atlanta on May 19 attend to ordination. The Conways are members of Immaculate Conception parish.

After his ordination, Father Zettler will remain in Rome one year for higher studies. He will then be assigned a post by the order.

Father Zettler was born at Atlanta in October 1935. He attended the Immaculate Conception Parochial School. He was an honor student for eight years. From the “I.C.”, Berrien entered Marist College, and graduated in 1953.

Having completed two years of scholarship work at Emory he left the University to enter Saint Mary’s Manor, Marist Seminary at Pendal, Pennsylvania and the Marist Novitiate at Staten Island. Upon the completion of his novitiate, went to the Society’s House of Studies at Washington, D.C., where he remained for almost five years.

Father Zettler has one sister, Mrs. Gerald p. Cleary of Boston; two brothers, Lt. J.G. Thomas R. Zettler, U.S.N., presently assigned to the USS Boxer, and half brother John K. Conway, a student at Marist College, Atlanta.