Appointments to the Archdiocesan Board of Consultors and the naming of a new Officialis were announced this week by Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan.

For the first time a consultative ballot was cast by all archdiocesan priests. The appointments were made from among the priests heading the final count.

Father John Stapleton and Father Donald Kiernan are the two new Consultors. They will meet four times a year with Monsignor Patrick J. O’Connor. Fathers Michael Manning, John McDonough and Joseph Ware. The two vicar generals, Monsignors Joseph Moylan and Joseph Cassidy, are not Consultors but meet ipso facto with the Board.

Their duties are to advise, criticize and recommend policy in the various apostolates of the archdiocese.

Father Eusebius Beltran has been appointed to the position of Officialis of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, effective June 3, 1965. He succeeds Monsignor Michael Regan who requested that he be permitted to devote full time to the ministry of Immaculate Heart of Mary parish. Archbishop Hallinan said: “The debt of the archdiocese to Monsignor Regan is for long service and large experience. An Officialis is the chief administrator of the Tribunal, the ‘judiciary’ of the archdiocese. The bulk of the cases coming before it deals with marriage, annulment and separation, a highly technical area of Canon Law.”

“Monsignor Regan always saw this work as priestly and pastoral, as well as legal. His service then was a ministry of grace to hundreds of persons. We are all grateful to him for this arduous, necessary and salutary work. I am confident that the present high standards of the Tribunal will be retained by Father Beltran who has worked in it for three years.”

Monsignor Regan will continue to serve as Dean of the Northeast Deanery, and member of the Commission on Liturgy.