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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 ...
A priest in 1884 erected the shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs in Auriesville, dedicated to the three French priests who were killed in New York during the 1640s. [15] In 1886, the Vatican erected the Diocese of Syracuse, taking central New York from the Diocese of Albany. [16] McNeiry died in 1894.
Edward Bernard Scharfenberger (born May 29, 1948) is an American prelate from the state of New York who has served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany since 2014. [ 1 ] Biography
Howard James Hubbard (October 31, 1938 – August 19, 2023) was an American prelate from the state of New York who served as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany from 1977 to 2014. Early life and education
The Archbishop of New York is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, who is responsible for looking after its spiritual and administrative needs.As the archdiocese is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province encompassing nearly all of the state of New York, [1] [2] the Archbishop of New York also administers the bishops who head the suffragan dioceses of Albany ...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany says covered up sexual abuse by priests for decades said a former bishop.
This is a list of closed and open churches within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany.In 2006, the Diocese started the "Called to BE Church" initiative. As of November 2015, this initiative had reduced the number of parishes to 126 [1] through church mergers and closings in response to declining church enrollment, priest shortages, and changing demographics.
New York's highest court on Tuesday ruled that employers' health insurance plans have to cover medically necessary abortions, rejecting a lawsuit by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany claiming ...