CHARLOTTE, N.C.--The Atlanta Provincial Assembly of Bishops and Priests will be held Oct. 23 to 25 in Charlotte with the theme "The Many Images of God."

Hosted by the Diocese of Charlotte it is open to bishops and priests from Atlanta, Savannah, Raleigh, N.C. and Charleston, S.C.

One conference speaker will be Father Michael J. Scanlon, OSA, who holds the Josephine Connelly Chair in Christian Theology at Villanova University. He has conducted twice a year workshops at the Vatican II Institute in Menlo Park, Calif., and yearly workshops for priests at the Washington Theological Union. He is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America.

Another speaker will be Abbot Francis Kline, OCSO, of Mepkin Abbey in South Carolina. He entered the Trappist monastery in Gethsemani, Ky., in 1972 after completing a degree at the Julliard School, New York.

Ordained in 1986 he was novice director of the community at Gethsemani until he was elected third abbot of Mepkin Abbey in 1990.

The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn-Woodlawn, a convention facility in Charlotte, and will open at 4 p.m. Oct. 23 and close at noon on Oct. 25. Registration of $100 is due Oct. 18 and made payable to the Diocese of Charlotte, P.O. Box 36776, Charlotte, N.C. 28236, Attention: Continuing Education. For information contact Msgr. Felix Kelaher at (704) 541-8679., Hotel reservations are made separately.