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Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio (born June 16, 1944) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church [1][2] who served as bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn in New York City from 2003 to 2021. DiMarzio previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Camden in New Jersey from 1999 to 2003 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark in New ...
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, leader of the Diocese of Brooklyn for 18 years, announced his retirement Wednesday — with a native New Yorker quickly announced as his successor. DiMarzio, 77, stepped ...
The Diocese of Brooklyn is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of New York. The diocesan cathedral is the Cathedral Basilica of St. James in Downtown Brooklyn and its co-cathedral is the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Prospect Heights. The current Bishop of Brooklyn is Robert J. Brennan.
On February 14, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI approved the petition of Bishop Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio to have the church designated as the diocesan co-cathedral because the Cathedral Basilica of St. James is too small to hold diocesan liturgies, [4] and because of its prime location near the newly opened Barclays Center and a construction boom that ...
The attorney informed Catholic officials in New Jersey that he is preparing a lawsuit on behalf of a client who says he was molested by Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio in the mid-1970s, when ...
In October 2003, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio's "Put Out Into the Deep" column first appeared. This was the first time in the paper's history that a diocesan bishop wrote a weekly column. Since then, Bishop DiMarzio has used his column as a way to speak directly to the people on local, national, and international issues.
In October 2019, the Congregation for Bishops in Rome assigned Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio from the Diocese of Brooklyn to lead an apostolic visitation, or investigation, of the Diocese of Buffalo. [60] After the visitation, Pope Francis accepted Malone's resignation as bishop in December 2019.
Due to a decrease in the population at nearby parishes, in 2011 Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio ordered for the church to be merged with Holy Rosary and St. Peter Claver, forming a new parish: St. Martin De Porres. The current pastor is Fr. Alonzo Cox, at one point the youngest pastor in the diocese. 2017-2018 marked its 150th anniversary.