Greco, Very Rev. Charles P.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Very Rev. Charles P. Greco. At the present writing the office of chancellor of the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans is held by Very Rev. Charles P. Greco,

Father Greco was born near Natchez, Mississippi, October 29, 1894, but when a child was brought to New Orleans by his parents, Frank P. and Carmel (Testa) Greco. He was reared and received his primary education in New Orleans, attending the Jesuit College, and continued his education in Jefferson College, in St. Joseph Seminary, in St. Tammany Parish, an-id going abroad, studied in the University of Louvain, Belgium, and in the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

He was ordained to the priesthood at New Orleans by Archbishop John W. Shaw on July 25, 1918. Father Greco for five years was assistant priest of St. Francis Church at Houma, and while there was director of the Holy Name Athletic Club. On January 1, 1924, Archbishop Shaw called him back to New Orleans, appointing him vice-chancellor of the diocese, and on September 9, 1924, he was made chancellor, being probably the youngest chancellor of a Catholic Archdiocese in the United States.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 360, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.