Archbishop Hallinan, publisher of the Georgia Bulletin, has announced the temporary appointments of the Rev. Leonard F.X. Mayhew and the Rev. R. Donald Kiernan as coeditors of the Georgia Bulletin.

The two priests in this temporary appointment succeed Mr. Gerard E. Sherry who has become editor of the Dominion News in Morgantown, West Virginia. Mr. Sherry served as editor of the archdiocesan weekly for three and a half years.

Father Mayhew, ordained in 1955, is pastor of Holy Cross parish. In addition to his pastorate in this newly founded parish, Father Mayhew is Chairman of the Archdiocesan Liturgy Commission. Articles written by Father Mayhew have been published in Commonwealth and the National Catholic Reporter.

Associate editor of the Georgia Bulletin for the past two years, his column has appeared weekly in the Georgia Bulletin for the past three years.

Previous to his appointment as pastor of Holy Cross parish, Father Mayhew has served as pastor of St. Peter’s Church in La Grange and administrator of St. Joseph’s Church in Athens.

Rev. R. Donald Kiernan enters his 11th year with the Bulletin having served as editor of the Bulletin from 1956 until 1962. With the establishment of Atlanta as an archdiocese the newspaper became a weekly and Father Kiernan was named Consulting Editor at that time.

Father Kiernan, pastor of St. Anthony’s Church in West End, has served as pastor of St. Bernadette’s Church, Cedartown; St. Michael’s Church, Gainesville; administrator of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Atlanta; and administrator of St. Peter Church, La Grange.

A member of the Board of Archdiocesan Consultors and chaplain of the Metropolitan Atlanta Serra Club, Father Kiernan recently has been a priest-consultor to the projected Lay Congress to be held in the archdiocese during May.

The 44-year-old newspaper was first founded as a bulletin by the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia. Gradually from a quarterly bulletin to a monthly newspaper and then to bi-monthly, the newspaper enjoyed phenomenal growth under the editorship of Mr. Gerard Sherry when it began publishing as a weekly. Presently the circulation is in excess of ten thousand weekly.