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The Archdiocese of New York ( la, Archidiœcesis Neo-Eboracensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or
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of the
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( particularly the Roman Catholic or
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) located in the State of New York. It encompasses the boroughs of
Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
,
the Bronx The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New ...
and
Staten Island Staten Island ( ) is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located in the city's southwest portion, the borough is separated from New Jersey b ...
in
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and the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
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, and Westchester. The Archdiocese of New York is the second-largest diocese in the United States by population, encompassing 296 parishes that serve around 2.8 million Catholics, in addition to hundreds of Catholic schools, hospitals and charities. The archdiocese also operates the well-known St. Joseph's Seminary, commonly referred to as Dunwoodie. The Archdiocese of New York is the
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see of the
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of New York which includes the
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s of Albany,
Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
, Buffalo, Ogdensburg, Rochester, Rockville Centre and
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. It publishes a bi-weekly newspaper, ''Catholic New York'', the largest of its kind in the United States.


Prelature

The ordinary of the Archdiocese of New York is an
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whose
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is The Cathedral of St. Patrick (commonly St. Patrick's Cathedral) in
Manhattan, New York Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
. The Archbishop of New York is also the
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of the larger Ecclesiastical Province of New York, which consists of the eight
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s that comprise the State of New York with the exception of a small portion (
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) that belongs to the Province of Hartford. As such, the metropolitan archbishop possesses certain limited authority over the
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of the province (see
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). R. Luke Concanen became the first
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of the (then) Diocese of New York in 1808. The current archbishop of New York is Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan.


History

On November 26, 1784, Pope Pius VI erected the Apostolic Prefecture of United States of America with the territory of what was then the entire United States of America. On November 6, 1789, the same pope raised this prefecture to a diocese and changed its title to Diocese of Baltimore headed by the first American bishop, John Carroll. At the time, there was a dearth of priests to minister to the large territory. The first Catholic Church in New York City was St. Peter's Church on Barclay Street. The land was purchased from Trinity Church with community donations and a gift of 1,000 pieces of silver from King Charles III of Spain. The church was built in the
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. Among its regular worshippers were Elizabeth Ann Seton and
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. On April 8, 1808,
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erected the Diocese of Philadelphia, the Diocese of Boston, the Diocese of Bardstown, and the Diocese of New York, taking their territory from the Diocese of Baltimore. He simultaneously elevated the Diocese of Baltimore to a metropolitan archdiocese and assigned all four new sees as its suffragans. The initial territory of the Diocese of New York encompassed all of the State of New York and
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, Morris,
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, and
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counties in northeastern New Jersey. The first appointed Bishop of New York could not set sail from Italy due to the
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, so a
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priest, Anthony Kohlmann, was chosen as administrator pending his arrival. He was instrumental in organizing the diocese and preparing for its original Cathedral of St. Patrick to be built on Mulberry Street. The difficulties faced by Catholics at the time included anti-Catholic bigotry in general and in the New York school system and a strong Nativist movement that sought to keep Catholics out of the country and to prevent those already present from advancing. On April 23, 1847,
Pope Pius IX Pope Pius IX ( it, Pio IX, ''Pio Nono''; born Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878, the longest verified papal reign. He was notable for convoking the First Vatican ...
erected the Diocese of Albany and
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, taking their initial territory from the Diocese of New York. On July 19, 1850, the same pope elevated the Diocese of New York to an
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. On July 29, 1853, the same pope erected the Diocese of Newark, with territory taken from the Diocese of New York and the Diocese of Philadelphia, and the
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, with territory taken from the Diocese of New York. On February 16, 1872, the Diocese of Ogdensburg was established. On July 25, 1885, the same pope annexed the territory of
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to the Archdiocese of New York, establishing their first permanent Catholic presence, due to their proximity to New York's busy port. The Archdiocese of New York constructed and administered churches and schools in the Bahamas until
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erected the Apostolic Prefecture of Bahama on March 21, 1929, enabled a transition. By 1932, The Bahamas were no longer under the spiritual jurisdiction of New York. This established the present territory of the Archdiocese of New York. From 1919 to 1983, the Archbishops of New York held the collateral position of Apostolic Vicar of the Military Vicariate of the United States.
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terminated this arrangement, first by appointing Bishop John Joseph O'Connor as Archbishop of New York but as ''Apostolic Administrator'' of the Military Vicariate of the United States on 26 January 1984 to oversee the transition and, subsequently, by reconstituting the Military Vicariate of the United States as the present Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, with its own archbishop and its see relocated to
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on 21 July 1986. In 2008, the Archdiocese of New York celebrated its bicentennial anniversary of its establishment as a diocese. To mark the occasion, Pope Benedict XVI visited the archdiocese from April 18 to April 20. During his visit, Benedict visited St. Patrick's Cathedral, The United Nations,
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, St. Joseph's Parish in Yorkville, St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers and celebrated a Mass at
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in The Bronx. In 2009, Timothy Dolan was named the 10th Archbishop of New York. He was made a Cardinal in February 2012. Since the start of the 21st century, The Archdiocese of New York, like other dioceses around the country and the world, has been dealing with a decline in priestly vocations. This has led to a number of parishes being closed and/or merged, and in some cases priests are being asked to take care of multiple parishes at once.


Archdiocesan demographics

As of 2016, the Catholic population of the archdiocese was 2,642,740. These Catholics were served by 696 archdiocesan priests and 590 priests of religious orders. Also laboring in the diocese were 319 permanent deacons, 962 religious brothers, and 2,260 nuns. As of 2021, the archdiocese currently has around 30 men enrolled in its priestly formation program. For comparison, in 1929, the Catholic population of the archdiocese was 1,273,291 persons. There were 1,314 clergy ministering in the archdiocese and 444 churches. There were also 170,348 children in Catholic educational and welfare institutions. In 1959, there were 7,913 nuns and sisters ministering in the archdiocese, representing 103 different religious orders.


Anniversaries of significance to the archdiocese

* January 4 – Memorial of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, native of New York * January 5 – Memorial of Saint John Neumann, ordained a priest of New York * March 17 – Solemnity of
Saint Patrick Saint Patrick ( la, Patricius; ga, Pádraig ; cy, Padrig) was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of Ireland, the other patron saints b ...
, Patronal Feast of both the archdiocese and the cathedral * April 8 – Anniversary of the establishment of the Diocese of New York (1808) * July 14 – Memorial of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, born near Albany in territory which was once part of the Diocese of New York * September 5 – Memorial of Saint Teresa of Calcutta, who did missionary work in the Bronx * October 5 – Anniversary of Dedication of the current Cathedral of Saint Patrick (1910) * November 13 – Memorial of
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini Frances Xavier Cabrini ( it, Francesca Saverio Cabrini; July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917), also called Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American Catholic religious sister. She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a ...
, missionary in New York


Leadership

Below is a list of individuals who have led the Archdiocese of New York and its antecedent jurisdictions since its founding.


Bishops of New York

# R. Luke Concanen (1808–1810) # John Connolly (1814–1825) #
John Dubois John Dubois (french: Jean Dubois) served as the third bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York from 1826 until his death in 1842. He was the first Bishop of New York who was not Irish-born and, as of 2021, remains the only Bishop or Archbi ...
(1826–1842) # John Hughes (1842–1850;
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1837–1842), elevated to
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- John McCloskey (coadjutor 1843–1847), appointed Bishop of Albany; subsequently returned as archbishop in 1864


Archbishops of New York

# John Hughes (1850–1864) # John McCloskey (1864–1885) (
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in 1875) # Michael Corrigan (1885–1902;
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1880–1885) # John Farley (1902–1918) # Patrick Hayes (1919–1938) #
Francis Spellman Francis Joseph Spellman (May 4, 1889 – December 2, 1967) was an American bishop and cardinal of the Catholic Church. From 1939 until his death in 1967, he served as the sixth Archbishop of New York; he had previously served as an auxiliary ...
(1939–1967)
-
James Francis McIntyre James Francis Aloysius McIntyre (June 25, 1886 – July 16, 1979) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1948 to 1970, and was created a cardinal in 1953. He was a highly successful bui ...
(coadjutor 1946–1948), appointed Archbishop of Los Angeles
- John Joseph Maguire (coadjutor 1965–1980), did not have right of succession # Terence Cooke (1968–1983) # John O'Connor (1984–2000) # Edward Egan (2000–2009) # Timothy Dolan (2009–present)


Current auxiliary bishops of New York

* Peter John Byrne (2014–present) * Edmund James Whalen (2019–present) * Gerardo Joseph Colacicco (2019–present) * John S. Bonnici (2022-present) * Joseph A. Espaillat (2022-present)


Former auxiliary bishops of New York

* John Farley (1895–1902), appointed archbishop of this archdiocese * Thomas Cusack (1904–1915), appointed Bishop of Albany * Patrick Hayes (1914–1919), appointed archbishop of this archdiocese * John Joseph Dunn (1921–1933) * Stephen Joseph Donahue (1934–1972) *
James Francis McIntyre James Francis Aloysius McIntyre (June 25, 1886 – July 16, 1979) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1948 to 1970, and was created a cardinal in 1953. He was a highly successful bui ...
(1941–1946), appointed coadjutor archbishop of this archdiocese, then Archbishop of Los Angeles (Cardinal in 1953) *
Joseph Patrick Donahue Joseph Patrick Donahue (November 6, 1870 – April 26, 1959) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York from 1945 to 1959. Biography Born in New York City, Joseph Donahue w ...
(1945–1959) *
Thomas John McDonnell Thomas John McDonnell, D.D., (August 18, 1894 – February 25, 1961) was the Roman Catholic coadjutor bishop, ''cum jure successionis'', of what is now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia. Education and pastoral as ...
(1947–1951), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Wheeling *
Joseph Francis Flannelly Joseph Francis Flannelly (October 22, 1894—May 23, 1973) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York from 1948 to 1969. Biography Joseph Flannelly was born in Ne ...
(1948–1969) *
James Henry Ambrose Griffiths James Henry Ambrose Griffiths (July 16, 1903—February 24, 1964) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York from 1950 to 1964. Biography Early life and education J ...
(1950–1964) * Fulton J. Sheen (1951–1966), appointed
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, then appointed
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*
Walter P. Kellenberg Walter Philip Kellenberg (June 3, 1901 – January 11, 1986) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Ogdensburg in Northern New York (1954–1957) and bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Cent ...
(1953–1954), appointed Bishop of Ogdensburg, then Bishop of Rockville Centre * Edward Vincent Dargin (1953–1973) * Joseph Maria Pernicone (1954–1978) * John Michael Fearns (1957–1972) * John Joseph Maguire (1959–1965), appointed coadjutor archbishop of this archdiocese * Edward Ernest Swanstrom (1960–1978) * James Edward McManus (1963–1970), previously Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico *
George Henry Guilfoyle George Henry Guilfoyle (November 13, 1913 – June 11, 1991) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden, Diocese of Camden in New Jersey from 1968 to 1989. He previously serve ...
(1964–1968), appointed Bishop of Camden * Terence Cooke (1965–1968), appointed archbishop of this archdiocese *
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(1966–1976) *
Edwin Broderick Edwin Bernard Broderick (January 16, 1917 – July 2, 2006) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Albany from 1969 to 1976. Early life and education Edwin Broderick was born in the Bronx, New York, to ...
(1967–1969), appointed Bishop of Albany * Edward Dennis Head (1970–1973), appointed Bishop of Buffalo * Patrick Vincent Ahern (1970–1994) *
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(1972–1997) * Anthony Francis Mestice (1973–2001) * Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1977–1981), appointed the first Bishop of Metuchen, then Archbishop of Newark, then Archbishop of Washington (Cardinal 2001–2018) * Austin Bernard Vaughan (1977–2000) * Francisco Garmendia (1977–2001) * Joseph Thomas O'Keefe (1982–1987), appointed
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* Emerson John Moore (1982–1995) * Edward Egan (1985–1988), appointed Bishop of Bridgeport, then returned as archbishop of this archdiocese * William Jerome McCormack (1987–2001) * Patrick Sheridan (1990–2011) * Henry J. Mansell (1993–1995), appointed Bishop of Buffalo, then Archbishop of Hartford * Edwin Frederick O'Brien (1996–1997), appointed Archbishop for the Military Services, USA, then Archbishop of Baltimore, then Grand Master of the
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(Cardinal in 2012) * Robert Anthony Brucato (1997–2006) * James Francis McCarthy (1999–2002) *
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(2001–2004), appointed Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts * Josu Iriondo (2001–2014) * Dominick John Lagonegro (2001–2018) * Dennis Joseph Sullivan (2004–2013), appointed Bishop of Camden * Gerald Thomas Walsh (2004–2017) * John Joseph Jenik (2014–2019) * John Joseph O'Hara (2014–2021)


Other priests of the diocese who became bishops

* Benedict Joseph Fenwick, appointed Bishop of Boston (1825) *
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, appointed the first Bishop of Chicago (1843) *
Andrew Byrne Andrew J. Byrne (1802 – June 10, 1862) was an Irish-born American Catholic priest, who became the first bishop of the Diocese of Little Rock in Arkansas from 1844 until his death in 1862. Biography Early life Andrew Byrne was born in 1802 ...
, appointed the first Bishop of Little Rock (1844) * Bernard O'Reilly, appointed
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(1850) * Saint John Neumann, appointed Bishop of Philadelphia (1852) * James Roosevelt Bayley, appointed the first bishop of Newark (1853), then Archbishop of Baltimore * John Loughlin, appointed the first Bishop of Brooklyn (1853) * David William Bacon, appointed the first bishop of Portland, Maine (1855) * Francis Patrick McFarland, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Florida (1857; did not take effect) and Bishop of Hartford (1858) * John J. Conroy, appointed Bishop of Albany (1865) *
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, appointed Bishop of Louisville (1868) * Bernard John McQuaid, appointed the first
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(1868) *
Francis McNeirny Francis McNeirny (April 25, 1828 – January 2, 1894) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Albany from 1877 until his death in 1894. Biography Francis S. McNeirny was born in New York City, and receiv ...
, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Albany (1871), then Bishop of Albany * William Hickley Gross, appointed Bishop of Savannah (1873), then Archbishop of Oregon City * John Lancaster Spalding, appointed the first bishop of Peoria (1876) * Michael J. O'Farrell, appointed the first Bishop of Trenton (1881) * Henry P. Northrop, appointed Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina (1881) and Bishop of Charleston * Charles Edward McDonnell, appointed Bishop of Brooklyn (1892) * Henry Gabriels, Rector of St Joseph's Seminary in
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, appointed Bishop of
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(1892) *
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, appointed Bishop of Sioux Falls (1896) *
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, appointed Bishop of Buffalo (1903) *
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, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Havana (1903) *
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, appointed Bishop of Duluth (1918), then Archbishop of Cincinnati *
Francis Joseph Tief Francis Joseph Tief (March 7, 1881 – September 22, 1965) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Concordia in Kansas from 1921 to 1938. Biography Early life Francis Tief was born on March 7, 188 ...
, appointed Bishop of Concordia, Kansas (1920) * Daniel Joseph Curley, appointed Bishop of Syracuse (1923) *
John Joseph Mitty John Joseph Mitty (January 20, 1884 – October 15, 1961) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the third Bishop of Salt Lake City (1926–1932) and the fourth Archbishop of San Francisco (1935–1961). Ea ...
, appointed Bishop of Salt Lake City (1926), then Coadjutor Archbishop of San Francisco, then Archbishop of San Francisco * Joseph Francis Rummel, appointed Bishop of Omaha (1928), then Archbishop of New Orleans * James E. Kearney, appointed Bishop of Salt Lake City (1932), then Bishop of Rochester * Bryan Joseph McEntegart, appointed Bishop of Ogdensburg (1943), later Bishop of Brooklyn (1957) * William Scully, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Albany (1945), then Bishop of Albany *
Patrick Aloysius O'Boyle Patrick Aloysius O'Boyle (July 18, 1896 – August 10, 1987) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the first resident Archbishop of Washington from 1948 to 1973, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1967. Early l ...
, appointed Archbishop of Washington (1947) (Cardinal in 1967) *
Christopher Joseph Weldon Christopher Joseph Weldon (September 6, 1905 – March 19, 1982) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts from 1950 to 1977. In 2020, an investigation by the Diocese of ...
, appointed Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts (1950) * Philip Joseph Furlong, appointed Auxiliary Bishop for the Military Services, USA (1956) * Francis Frederick Reh, appointed Bishop of Charleston (1962), then Rector of the
Pontifical North American College The Pontifical North American College (NAC) is a Roman Catholic educational institution in Rome, Italy, that prepares seminarians to become priests in the United States and elsewhere. The NAC also provides a residence for priests who are pur ...
, then Bishop of Saginaw * Thomas Andrew Donnellan, appointed Bishop of Ogdensburg (1964), then Archbishop of Atlanta * Charles Borromeo McLaughlin, appointed auxiliary bishop of Raleigh (1964), then the first bishop of St. Petersburg * Thomas C. Kelly, appointed auxiliary bishop of Washington (1977), then Archbishop of Louisville * Joseph Thomas Dimino, appointed auxiliary bishop for the Military Services, USA (1983), then Archbishop for the Military Services, USA * Roberto González Nieves, appointed auxiliary bishop of Boston (1988), Bishop of Corpus Christi, then Archbishop of San Juan * Rrok Kola Mirdita, appointed Archbishop of Tiranë-Durrës, Albania (1993) * Emilio S. Allué, appointed auxiliary bishop of Boston (1996) *
Charles Daniel Balvo Charles Daniel Balvo (born June 29, 1951) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church who has been serving in diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1987. His current posting is as apostolic nuncio to Australia. He has ...
, appointed an
apostolic nuncio An apostolic nuncio ( la, nuntius apostolicus; also known as a papal nuncio or simply as a nuncio) is an ecclesiastical diplomat, serving as an envoy or a permanent diplomatic representative of the Holy See to a state or to an international ...
and
titular archbishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
(2005) * Charles John Brown, appointed an apostolic nuncio and titular archbishop (2011) * William James Muhm, appointed auxiliary bishop for the Military Services, USA (2019)


Churches


Schools

The headquarters of the archdiocesan school system is in the New York Catholic Center Terrence Cardinal Cooke Building in
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.


Religious orders


Cemeteries

The following cemeteries are under the auspices of Calvary & Allied Cemeteries, Inc.: * Calvary Cemetery - Established in 1847; located in Queens. The cemetery, while located in the Diocese of Brooklyn, is property of the Archdiocese of New York as it was established before the Diocese of Brooklyn was canonically erected. * Cemetery of the Ascension - Located in Airmont in
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. *
Cemetery of the Resurrection The Cemetery of the Resurrection is a Catholic cemetery on the southern shore of Staten Island, in New York City. Notable burials * Joseph Armone (1917–1992), organized crime figure * William Cutolo, Sr. (1949–1999), Underboss of the Colomb ...
- Located in Staten Island. *
Gate of Heaven Cemetery Gate of Heaven Cemetery, approximately 25 miles (40 km) north of New York City, was established in 1917 at 10 West Stevens Ave. in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, as a Roman Catholic burial site. Among its famous residents i ...
- Located in
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in Westchester County. Many parishes have their own cemeteries, or their own sections in private cemeteries. An incomplete list of those cemeteries follows: * All Souls Cemetery ( Pleasantville) - Belongs to Holy Innocents Church in Pleasantville. * Assumption Cemetery (
Cortlandt Manor Cortlandt Manor is a hamlet located in the Town of Cortlandt in northern Westchester County, New York, United States. Cortlandt Manor is situated directly east, north and south of Peekskill, and east of three sections of the Town of Cortlandt, ...
) - Belongs to Assumption Church in Peekskill. * Calvary Cemetery ( Newburgh) - Belongs to St. Patrick Church in Newburgh. * Calvary Cemetery ( Poughkeepsie) - Belongs to St. Martin de Porres Church in Poughkeepsie. * Holy Mount Cemetery ( Eastchester) - Belongs to Immaculate Conception-Assumption Parish in Tuckahoe. * Holy Sepulchre Cemetery (
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) - Belongs to Blessed Sacrament Church in New Rochelle. * Mount Calvary Cemetery ( White Plains) - Belongs to St. John the Evangelist Church in White Plains. * Sacred Heart Cemetery ( Barrytown) - Belongs to St. Christopher Church in Red Hook. The parish has a mission chapel in Barrytown. * St. Anastasia Cemetery ( Harriman) - Belongs to St. Anastasia Church in Harriman. * St. Denis Cemetery ( Hopewell Junction) - Belongs to St. Denis Church in Hopewell Junction. * St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery (
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) - Belongs to St. Francis of Assisi Church in Mount Kisco. * St. Joachim Cemetery ( Beacon) - Belongs to St. Joachim-St. John the Evangelist Church in Beacon. The cemetery consists of an old section and a new section. * St. John Cemetery ( Goshen) - Belongs to St. John the Evangelist Church in Goshen. * St. John Cemetery ( Pawling) - Belongs to St. John the Evangelist Church in Pawling. * St. Joseph Cemetery (
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) - Belongs to St. Joseph Church in Florida. * St. Joseph Cemetery ( Middletown) - Belongs to St. Joseph Church in Middletown. * St. Joseph Cemetery ( Millbrook) - Belongs to St. Joseph Church in Millbrook. * St. Joseph Cemetery ( Wurtsboro) - Belongs to St. Joseph Church in Wurtsboro. * St. Joseph Cemetery ( Yonkers) - Belongs to St. Joseph Church in Yonkers. * St. Lucy Cemetery (
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) - Belongs to St. Francis Xavier Church in Narrowsburg. There was formerly a mission church in Cochecton. * St. Mary Cemetery ( Bangall) - Belongs to Immaculate Conception Church in Bangall. * St. Mary Cemetery ( Port Jervis) - Belongs to St. Mary Church in Port Jervis. * St. Mary Cemetery ( Wappingers Falls) - Belongs to St. Mary Church in Wappingers Falls. * St. Mary Cemetery ( Washingtonville) - Belongs to St. Mary Church in Washingtonville. * St. Mary Cemetery ( Yonkers) - Belongs to St. Mary Church in Yonkers. * St. Patrick Cemetery ( Millerton) - Belongs to Immaculate Conception Church in Amenia. The parish has a mission chapel in Millerton. * St. Patrick Cemetery ( Newburgh) - Belongs to St. Patrick Church in Newburgh. * St. Peter Cemetery ( Kingston) - Belongs to St. Peter Church in Kingston. * St. Peter Cemetery ( Poughkeepsie) - Belongs to St. Peter Church in Hyde Park. The church was formerly located in Poughkeepsie. * St. Raymond Cemetery (
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) - Belongs to St. Raymond Church in the Bronx. The cemetery consists of an old section and a new section. * St. Stephen Cemetery (
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) - Belongs to St. Stephen-St. Edward Church in Warwick. * St. Sylvia Cemetery (
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) - Belongs to St. Sylvia Church in Tivoli. * St. Thomas Cemetery (
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) - Belongs to St. Thomas of Canterbury Church in Cornwall-on-Hudson.


Catholic charitable organizations


Saints, blesseds, venerables, servants of God

* Elizabeth Ann Seton – founder of American branch of Sisters of Charity; first
canonized Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of s ...
saint from New York; first native-born U.S. citizen canonized a saint * Frances Xavier Cabrini – founder of Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; first U.S. citizen canonized a saint *
Isaac Jogues Isaac Jogues, S.J. (10 January 1607 – 18 October 1646) was a French missionary and martyr who traveled and worked among the Iroquois, Huron, and other Native populations in North America. He was the first European to name Lake George, c ...
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missionary, active in northern New York State before establishment of Diocese of New York * John Nepomucene Neumann – New York diocesan priest, later a Redemptorist; fourth Bishop of Philadelphia; first U.S. bishop canonized; founder of first Catholic diocesan school system in the U.S. *
Kateri Tekakwitha Kateri Tekakwitha ( in Mohawk), given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Catholic saint and virgin who was an Algonquin– Mohawk. Born in the Mohawk village ...
– first
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canonized a saint * Fulton Sheen – archbishop; prominent radio and television preacher *
Pierre Toussaint Pierre Toussaint (27 June 1766 – June 30, 1853) was a Haitian-American hairdresser, philanthropist, and onetime slave brought to New York City by his owners in 1787. A candidate for sainthood, he was declared Venerable by Pope John Paul II in ...
– Haitian slave; New York businessman and philanthropist *
Isaac Hecker Isaac Thomas Hecker (December 18, 1819 – December 22, 1888) was an American Catholic priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious society of men. Hecker was originally ordained a Redemptorist priest in 1849. With th ...
– Redemptorist priest; founder of Paulist Fathers *
Vincent Capodanno Vincent Robert Capodanno Jr., M.M. (February 13, 1929 – September 4, 1967) was a Catholic priest and Maryknoll Missioner killed in action while serving as a Navy chaplain with a Marine Corps infantry unit during the Vietnam War. He was a posth ...
Maryknoll missionary; U.S. Navy chaplain; Vietnam War hero; Medal of Honor recipient *
Dorothy Day Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social and anarchist activism. She was perhaps the best-known ...
– social activist and radical; co-founder of ''
Catholic Worker ''Catholic Worker'' is a newspaper published seven times a year by the flagship Catholic Worker community in New York City. The newspaper was started by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin to make people aware of church teaching on social justice. ...
'' movement and newspaper * Terence Cooke – archbishop and cardinal; founder of many charitable programs *
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, also known as Mother Mary Alphonsa, (May 20, 1851 – July 9, 1926) was an American writer and religious leader. She was a Catholic religious sister, social worker, and foundress of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne. ...
– founder of
Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne are a Roman Catholic congregation of religious sisters, who are a part of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. The Congregation was founded on December 8, 1900, by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, a daughter of the famed no ...
, as Mother Mary Alphonsa


Major shrines

* St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Shrine, at 701 Fort Washington Avenue in Hudson Heights, Manhattan, with a facade on
Cabrini Boulevard Cabrini Boulevard spans the Manhattan neighborhood of Hudson Heights, running from West 177th Street in the south, near the George Washington Bridge, to Fort Tryon Park in the north, along an escarpment of Manhattan schist overlooking the Hen ...
, next to the former Mother Cabrini High School. * Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, in the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, at 7 State Street in the
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. * National Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, at 70 Carmelite Drive in
Middletown, Orange County, New York Middletown is a city in Orange County, New York, United States. It lies in New York's Hudson Valley region, near the Wallkill River and the foothills of the Shawangunk Mountains. Middletown is situated between Port Jervis and Newburgh, New Yo ...
. *
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National Shrine of
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, 174 Filors Lane, Stony Point, New York.


Reports of sex abuse

In August 2018, the archdiocese reported that between 2016 and 2018, its Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program paid nearly $60 million to 278 victims of sex abuse by clergy. On September 26, 2018, it was reported that the Archdiocese of New York, and the three other dioceses where Theodore McCarrick served as a bishop, were facing an investigation by the
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in the United States. Founded in 1966 as the joint National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and United States Catholic Conference (US ...
for McCarrick's alleged sex abuse. On January 28, 2019, the New York state Assembly and Senate passed a law allowing prosecutors to bring criminal charges until a victim turned 28, and permitting victims to sue until age 55. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law on February 14, 2019. On April 26, 2019, the Archdiocese released a list of 120 Catholic clergy accused of committing acts of sexual abuse. Some of those on the list, which includes both male and female church workers, have been convicted and many are deceased. The list was accompanied by a letter of apology from Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who asked for forgiveness. On August 14, 2019, James Grien, who has accused McCarrick of sexually abusing him when McCarrick was an auxiliary bishop of New York, filed a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of New York. In his lawsuit, Grien also stated that McCarrick's status as a friend of his family allowed the former New York Auxiliary Bishop to continue to visit and sexually abuse him after being transferred to New Jersey's Diocese of Metuchen and Archdiocese of Newark. On September 30, 2019, Dolan released a report written by
Barbara S. Jones Barbara Sue Jones (born 1947) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Education and career Born in Inglewood, California, Jones received a Bachelor of Arts degree fr ...
, a former judge and prosecutor. Her report stated, among other things, that the Archdiocese had completed the process of removing all of its remaining accused clergy from active ministry. In the same report, Jones recommended that the Archdiocese should also hire a sex abuse "czar" to vet all complaints. Jones, who was commissioned by Dolan in 2018 to conduct the review of the church's handling of abuse allegations, also recommended hiring "a compliance officer for the Office of Priest Personnel to monitor its functions and oversee the new document management system". Dolan also backed the Jones Report and stated at a press conference that the archdiocese was expanding its sex abuse policy as well. On October 10, 2019, it was announced that Pope Francis had accepted the resignation of Bronx-based Auxiliary Bishop John Jenik following an accusation of sex abuse. Appointed Auxiliary Bishop by Pope Francis in 2014, Jenik also served as vicar for the Northwest Bronx, appointed by Dolan's predecessor Edward Egan in 2006. Jenik, who submitted his resignation letter upon turning 75 in March 2019, had stepped out of public ministry in October 2018 after the allegation surfaced. On May 8, 2020, Cuomo extended the 2019 New York Child Victim Act's statewide statute of limitations deadline to file sex abuse lawsuits, which was originally set for August 14, 2020, to January 14, 2021. On July 27, 2020, it was revealed that a Catholic priest who served the Archdiocese of New York in upstate New York's Orange County was named in a new sex abuse lawsuit. In the lawsuit, eight men alleged that longtime Orange County priest George Boxelaar, who is now deceased, sexually abused them when they were children, adding their claims to those of at least three other accusers of the late Boxelaar who have sued. These three other accusers had filed lawsuits through the state Supreme Court in Orange County in late 2019, with one also naming the Archdiocese of New York and both Holy Cross and Our Lady of Mount Carmel churches as defendants. In addition to these new lawsuits, a Scarsdale Catholic school teacher identified as Edwin Gaylor also confessed to committing acts of sex abuse. On December 3, 2020, New York City priest Fr. George Rutler, the prestigious pastor of the Church of St. Michael in Manhattan was accused by a female security guard, who worked at Rutler's parish for two shifts, of watching pornography and "aggressively" groping her. Rutler, considered a conservative icon, has made numerous appearances on
EWTN The Eternal Word Television Network, more commonly known by its initials EWTN, is an American basic cable television network which presents around-the-clock Catholic-themed programming. It is not only the largest Catholic television network in ...
and has written 30 books. Following the accusations, he maintained his innocence but offered to temporarily step down as pastor during the subsequent investigation. In May 2021, the District Attorney of Manhattan declined to bring charges, dismissing the accusations and allegedly calling them "baseless." As of December 2021, no charges against Rutler have been announced in New York.


Province of New York


See also

* :People of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York * John P. Chidwick – New York diocesan priest; chaplain on USS ''Maine'' * Sisters of Life – founded in 1991 by John Joseph O'Connor, Cardinal Archbishop of New York


References


External links


Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
(official site) ** (ny-archdiocese.org)
''Catholic New York''



New York State Catholic Conference
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