Fourteen laymen, priests and nuns have been appointed to the Archdiocesan Commission on Religious Unity, Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan has announced.

Chairman of the commission will be Ferdinand C. Buckley, an attorney and a member of St. Jude’s parish. He is the former president of the St. Jude’s Men’s Club and the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic men. Buckley also assisted in the organization of dialogues between Christians and Jews in Atlanta.

Father Matthew Kemp, a teacher at St. Joseph High school and priest-in-residence at Our Lady of Lourdes, will serve as priest-secretary of the commission.

Other members include Father James Maciejewski, assistant St. Mary’s, Rome; Father John L. Hein, S.J., director of Ignatius House; Father John Mulroy, pastor of St. Joseph’s Athens; Father Patrick J. Padden, assistant at St. Thomas More; Sister Mary Jacob, administrator of Holy Family Hospital; Sister Catherine James, S.N.D., St. Thomas More Convent.

Lay members of the commission are Mrs. George J. Gunning, Miss Patricia Richardi, Gerald Fries, Donald Kelley, Dr. John M. Palms, Tony Zivalich and Leo J. Zuber.