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The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Boston (Latin: Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Bostoniensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in eastern Massachusetts in the United States. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. The archdiocese is the fourth largest in the United States. [3]
Reed was ordained into the priesthood by Cardinal Bernard Law on July 6, 1985, for the Archdiocese of Boston at St. John the Evangelist Church in Swampscott. [1] [2] [4] After his ordination, the archdiocese assigned Reed to a pastoral position at Immaculate Conception Parish in Medford, Massachusetts. Reed has also served in several other ...
The first program of the Catholic Television Center of the Archdiocese of Boston was produced on the morning of January 1, 1955, when Archbishop Richard J. Cushing celebrated a Pontifical Low Mass in studios at 25 Granby Street near Kenmore Square in Boston. From that studio, equipped with three RCA TK31 cameras, the Center produced live and ...
In August 2024, as O'Malley approached his 80th birthday, Francis finally accepted O'Malley's resignation as archbishop of Boston. The pope appointed Bishop Richard Henning from the Diocese of Providence as his successor. [34] O'Malley continued to administer the archdiocese as apostolic administrator until Henning's installation on October ...
"Today, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued an ill-considered statement on the day of President Biden's inauguration. Aside from the fact that there is seemingly no precedent for doing so, the statement, critical of President Biden, came as a surprise to many bishops, who received it just hours before it was released." [41] [42]
On March 2, 2011, he was consecrated in St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis by Archbishop Daniel Buechlein, with Bishop Richard Lennon and Bishop Paul Dennis Etienne serving as co-consecrators. [6] Coyne was the first auxiliary bishop appointed to the archdiocese since 1933. [11]
Pope Francis appointed Barbosa as an auxiliary bishop of Boston on December 9, 2023. [3] His episcopal consecration occurred on February 3, 2024. [9] His appointment made him the second youngest bishop in the United States [10] and the second native of Brazil to become a bishop in the U.S., after Edgar Moreira da Cunha, Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River.
Richard Garth Henning (born October 17, 1964) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Boston since 2024. He previously served as Bishop of Providence from 2023 to 2024 and before that was an auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Rockville Centre from 2018 to 2022.