The Reverend Edward Paul Markely will be ordained to the holy priesthood in the Order of Saint Benedict by the Most Reverend Joseph A. Durick, Bishop of Nashville, on Friday the tenth of June at ten o’clock in the morning at St. Bernard Abbey Church in Cullman, Alabama. He will offer a Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving on Sunday, the twelfth of June at five thirty o’clock in the evening at the Cathedral of Christ the King with his Marist High schoolmate, Fathers Jerry Hardy and Paul Kelley, officiating as concelebrants. The Right Reverend Monsignor Joseph G. Cassidy, P.A., will preach the sermon.

Born September 5, 1939 in Atlanta, Georgia. Father Markley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Leslie Markley. He received his elementary education at Saint Benedict School in Greensboro, North Carolina, and at Christ the King School in Atlanta, graduating from Marist College High School with the class of 1957. A graduate of Saint Bernard Seminary in 1962, he took his final vows as a Benedictine in 1964.

He has spent the past two years finishing his theological studies at Saint Anselm’s Abbey and the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Having received his diaconate in February of this year at the Shrine of Immaculate Conception in Washington, he has served on Sundays throughout the spring at the Immaculate Conception parish in that city.