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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York covers New York, Bronx, and Richmond Counties in New York City (coterminous with the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island, respectively), as well as Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties in New York state.
The Diocese of Richmond encompasses all of central and southern Virginia, the Hampton Roads area, and the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay.. As of 2022, the diocese had 135 diocesan and religious priests serving a Catholic population of 226,674 in 138 parishes and eight missions.
When a diocese is suppressed or when the diocesan see is transferred to another location, the title of the former see becomes available for assignment to a titular bishop or, in the case of an archdiocese, a titular archbishop or an archbishop ad personam. The Vatican resurrected the names of many former sees of the United States in the 1990s ...
Church of St. Peter (22 Barclay Street) – Established in 1786; first parish in the Diocese of New York. Merged in 2015. Our Lady of the Holy Rosary's Church (7 State St.) – Established in 1884 as a mission; converted in 1887 to a parish. Home to the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.
Currently serves as the major seminary for the archdiocese, the Diocese of Brooklyn, the Diocese of Rockville Centre and the Community of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. Seminarians from other dioceses and religious orders also study at St. Joseph's for major seminary. The seminary also offers graduate degree programs for both lay and ...
Capacity for 500 seminarians; there were 35 in 2018. [55] Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary, Dundalk. Seminary for the Archdiocese of Armagh run under the auspices of the Neocatechumenal Way. [56] In 2017 it was training 16 seminarians from eight countries. [57] Students travel to Maynooth to study philosophy and theology.
The attorney general's office began investigating eight of New York's Catholic dioceses in September 2018. A settlement with the Diocese of Buffalo was announced in October 2022.
When Connolly arrived in New York, the diocese had four priests and three churches: St. Peter's and St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, and St. Mary's in Albany. [19] The Catholic population of the diocese was approximately 15,000, primarily Irish with some English, French and Germans. [20]