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St. Agnes Cathedral is a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Rockville Centre, New York, on Long Island. It is the seat of the Diocese of Rockville Centre. The Most Reverend John Oliver Barres is the ordinary bishop of the Diocese and pastor of the Cathedral parish. The Saint Agnes Cathedral School is on campus with the cathedral.
Pope Pius XII erected the Diocese of Rockville Centre on April 6, 1957, taking Nassau and Suffolk counties from the Diocese of Brooklyn. [10] The pope named Bishop Walter P. Kellenberg of the Diocese of Ogdensburg as the first bishop of the new diocese. [11] St. Agnes Cathedral was designated as the diocesan cathedral.
The Brooklyn Diocese continued to use the seminary as their major seminary along with Rockville Centre until 2012, when the seminary program was shut down and was transferred to St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, NY. The seminary facility continues to be open today, serving mostly as a retreat center.
St. Agnes Cathedral School, otherwise known as The St. Agnes School, is a K-8 private co-educational Catholic country day school in Rockville Centre, New York, United States. It was founded in 1917 as St. Agnes Elementary School by Monsignor Peter Quealy. A major portion of the student body reside in Rockville Centre, and neighboring towns.
John Oliver Barres (/ ˈ b ær ɪ s / BARR-iss; born September 20, 1960) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Rockville Centre since 2017. He previously served as Bishop of Allentown from 2009 to 2017.
On May 30, 1992, Henning was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Rockville Centre by Bishop John R. McGann at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre. [5] He served in a parish in Port Washington for five years before being sent by his bishop for graduate studies in Sacred Scripture.
Pope Francis named Zglejszewski the titular bishop of Nicives and an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre on February 11, 2014. He was consecrated in St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre on March 25, 2014, by Bishop William Murphy. Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone and Auxiliary Bishop Robert J. Brennan were the principal co ...
St. Agnes Cathedral may refer to: Japan. ... St. Agnes Cathedral (Rockville Centre, New York) See also. Saint Agnes (disambiguation) St. Agnes Church (disambiguation)