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The Diocese of Albany (Latin: Diœcesis Albanensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory in eastern New York in the United States. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany. The Diocese of Albany is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of New York. As of 2024, the bishop of Albany is Edward Scharfenberger.
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 ...
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.
William Croswell Doane (March 2, 1832, in Boston [1] – May 17, 1913, in New York City [1] [2]) was the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany in the United States. He was bishop from 1869 until his death in 1913. Doane served about 60 years in ordained ministry, a huge span for those times.
At the time, the diocese faced hundreds of legal claims from persons alleging that they had been victims of child sexual abuse. [13] Later in 2023, Scharfenberger submitted his mandatory resignation letter to the Vatican upon the occasion of his 75th birthday. [14] As of August 1, 2024, he continues to serve as bishop of the diocese of Albany. [15]
Pages in category "Roman Catholic parishes of Diocese of Albany" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Diocese of Albano, a suburbicarian see of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy; Warwick Bastian, assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Bunbury, Australia, (1968-1979) with the title Bishop of Albany
According to the Episcopal Diocese of Albany, Love is a Texas native; he earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Southwest Texas State in 1980, a Master of Science degree in education from the State University of New York-Plattsburgh in 1988, [1] [better source needed] and a master's degree in Divinity in 1991 from Nashotah House.