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The Diocese of Albany (Latin: Diœcesis Albanensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory in eastern New York in the United States. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany. The Diocese of Albany is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of New York. As of 2024, the bishop of Albany is Edward Scharfenberger.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany covers the Capital District (Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer, and Saratoga counties), as well as Warren, Washington, Greene, Columbia, Schoharie, Otsego, Delaware, Fulton, Montgomery, southern Herkimer, and extreme southeastern Hamilton counties in New York state. In these fourteen counties, there are over ...
Williamson was elected Bishop of the Diocese of Albany on September 9, 2023, and was consecrated on February 24, 2024. [2] Williamson was elected on the fourth ballot. The lay order vote was 65-22, and the clergy vote was 56-54. [5] Williamson's tenure was preceded by turmoil within the diocese over the issue of same-sex marriage.
By 1847 the Catholic Church and its congregations were well entrenched in Albany and the other cities of the region, and Pope Pius IX granted requests to establish the Diocese of Albany. [3] [10] John McCloskey, later Archbishop of New York, was installed as the first bishop of Albany in 1847, with St. Mary's as his procathedral. [1]
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany says covered up sexual abuse by priests for decades said a former bishop.
St. Joseph's Church is a historic neo-gothic church edifice in the Ten Broeck Triangle section of Albany, New York's Arbor Hill neighborhood. The structure is considered a city landmark and an important part of the Albany skyline. [1] The church closed in 1994. The City of Albany placed the church for sale in February 2023. [2]
In Albany, Doane planned a cathedral like those in England, that served not only as the central church of the diocese but anchored a complex to include a convent, cloister, hospital and school. In 1870 he established a girls' school, and then incorporated the cathedral three years later, holding services in a former machine shop.
This time, McCloskey consecrated Wadhams as the first bishop of the newly created Diocese of Ogdensburg, split off from the Albany diocese's northern reaches. Three years later the church joined others in Albany and New York in celebrating McCloskey's elevation to cardinal, the first American-born priest to attain that rank. For St. Mary's ...