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Rockville Centre emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as a commuter town connected to New York by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). [11] In 1915, the New York Tribune went so far as to declare that Rockville Centre was a place in which "the average mortal could live happily." [12]
The Diocese of Rockville Centre (Latin: Dioecesis Petropolitana in Insula Longa) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in the Long Island region of New York State in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of New York.
In 1935 the current building was completed and in 1957, Pope Pius XII announced the formation of the Diocese of Rockville Centre and appointed Most Rev. Walter P. Kellenberg to be its bishop. 1981 saw a major facelift for the aging building and while the cathedral was being renovated, daily Mass was celebrated in the Episcopal Church of the ...
Monsignor Alan J. Placa, a Rockville Centre diocesan priest, was cleared by the tribunal of the Diocese of Albany, the home diocese of the complainant, of allegations made against him in June 2002. The decision was subsequently confirmed by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , which instructed Murphy "to do what we can to restore ...
US Post Office-Rockville Centre. May 11, 1989 : 250 Merrick Road Rockville Centre: 28 ... National Register of Historic Places listings in New York;
On February 17, 1950, two Long Island Rail Road trains collided on the Montauk Branch just west of Rockville Centre station in Rockville Centre, New York, killing 32 and injuring several dozen more. At the time, it was the deadliest collision in the railroad's history until the Kew Gardens train crash later that year.
Larry McShane, New York Daily News October 1, 2020 at 12:20 PM NEW YORK — The beleaguered Diocese of Rockville Centre, facing dozens of sex abuse lawsuits, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday.
John McGann died at Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre on January 31, 2002, at age 77. [4] The Radiology & Imaging Center at Mercy Medical Center is named for Bishop McGann, [6] as is Bishop McGann-Mercy High School. [7] Bishop John R. McGann Village is a senior low income housing apartment in Bay Shore, New York.