Biography of 	Greco, Very Rev. Charles P. Natchez, MS., then Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller August 2001

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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.