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Celebrating 50 Years of Women in the Priesthood: The Rev. Mimi Guerra

Aug 15, 2024

The Rev. Irma (Mimi) Guerra is a native of Mexico who moved to the United States in 1994. She has been an educator for 30 years and was a Spanish teacher with the Douglas County Schools.

Guerra earned a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish in 1989 from the University of Victoria and earned a Child Development Associate (CDA) at Kennesaw State University for Early Childhood Education in 2002. She has also completed English classes at the Cobb County Adult Education Center, completed CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) at the Training and Counseling Center (TACC) of St. Luke’s, and last summer finished seminary at CETLA (Theological Education Center for Latinos) in The Diocese of Atlanta.

She was ordained deacon in 2017 and priest in 2018. She became associate rector at Christ Church Norcross in 2018. In 2022, she was called by Bishop Wright as Missioner for Hispanic Ministries in The Diocese of Atlanta.