Mr. Ashley Morris, Th.M

Mr. Ashley Morris, Th.M. is the director of Black Catholic Affairs of the Atlanta Archdiocesan Office of Intercultural Ministries. Prior to this appointment, he served as the Associate Director of the same office and as well as an Assistant Campus Minister of Lyke House: The Catholic Center at Atlanta University Center. He received a bachelor’s degree in mass media arts from Clark Atlanta University in 2005, and a Masters of Pastoral Theology from the Institute of Black Catholic Studies (IBCS) of Xavier University of Louisiana (New Orleans) in 2014.

Ashley has served as a consultant on the Subcommittee of African American Affairs and the Bishops Working Group on Youth and Young Adult Ministry of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as the Multicultural Ad Hoc Committee of the National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministers (NFCYM). He is currently the co-lead of the Atlanta Archdiocesan Intercultural Commission and the co-lead for the archdiocesan Synod on Synodality Core Team. He has given presentations and facilitated conversations on intercultural competency development, Black Catholic history, ministerial discernment and racism for parishes and schools throughout the archdiocese, and has taught courses on intercultural competency, young adult ministry. He has also had contributions published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and other Catholic organizations.

Ashley and his wife, LaSheka, are parishioners of the historic Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Atlanta and have one amazingly talented daughter.