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The plan unveiled Thursday was just focused on Erie County but similar work has already been done in several other geographical areas of the 13-county diocese. Dana Massing can be reached at ...
Dana Massing, Erie Times-News May 10, 2024 at 4:22 AM Feedback from pastors, parish leaders and the public has led to a change in the local parish restructuring plan announced by the Catholic ...
The Diocese of Erie (Latin: Dioecesis Eriensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in western Pennsylvania in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The Diocese of Erie was founded on July 29, 1853. Its mother church is St. Peter's Cathedral in Erie.
Diocese puts Monsignor John Hagerty, headmaster at Cathedral Prep in 1980s, on list of those "under investigation" for child sexual abuse.
Bishop Lawrence T. Persico of the Diocese of Erie, who received praise from Shapiro, acknowledged there was a cover-up in the church. [60] Persico subsequently stated that he felt that the grand jury report should have included the names of accused laypeople who worked for the Erie Diocese as well. [24]
After his 1977 ordination, the diocese assigned Persico as parochial vicar of Immaculate Conception Parish in Irwin, Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1980. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] [ 1 ] [ 4 ] In 1980, Persico entered the School of Canon Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. , where he received a Licentiate of Canon Law in 1982. [ 3 ]
The preliminary plan was unveiled to pastors and parish leaders, who will share it with parishioners. They will have a month to give feedback.
Retired Bishop Donald Trautman, who died at age 85, led the Erie Catholic Diocese for more than two decades.