Thomas Andrew Donnellan

Thomas Andrew Donnellan (January 24, 1914 – October 15, 1987) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Ogdensburg in New York from 1964 to 1968, and as the second archbishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta in Georgia from 1968 until his death.

[1] Donnellan was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of New York at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan by Archbishop Francis Spellman on June 3, 1939.

During his 19-year tenure, Donnellan guided the archdiocese through extensive growth, with the number of Catholics in North Georgia nearly tripling from 50,000 in 1968 to over 133,000.

An activist priest with prior problems with the archdiocese, Foust was suspended from not wearing vestments during mass and giving communion to non-Catholics.

It was attended by over 1,000 mourners, with the apostolic pro-nuncio in the United States, Archbishop Pio Laghi, serving as the principal celebrant.