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(Redirected from Cardinal John O'Connor) American Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal This article is about the archbishop of New York. For the bishop of Newark, see John J. O'Connor (bishop of Newark). For other people named John O'Connor, see John O'Connor (disambiguation). "Cardinal O'Connor" redirects here. For the Archbishop of Westminster, see Cormac Murphy-O'Connor.

His Eminence
John O'Connor
Cardinal, Archbishop of New York
SeeArchdiocese of New York
AppointedJanuary 26, 1984
InstalledMarch 19, 1984
Term endedMay 3, 2000
PredecessorTerence Cooke
SuccessorEdward Egan
Other post(s)Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo
Previous post(s)
Orders
OrdinationDecember 15, 1945
by Hugh L. Lamb
ConsecrationMay 27, 1979
by John Paul II
Created cardinalMay 25, 1985
by John Paul II
RankCardinal Priest
Personal details
Born(1920-01-15)January 15, 1920
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
DiedMay 3, 2000(2000-05-03) (aged 80)
New York City, New York, US
BuriedSt. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, New York, US
DenominationRoman Catholicism
ParentsThomas J. O'Connor & Dorothy Magdalene Gomple
Alma mater
MottoThere Can Be No Love Without Justice
Military career
Allegiance United States
Service / branch United States Navy
Years of service1952–1979
Rank Rear admiral
CommandsChief of Chaplains of the Navy
Battles / warsKorean War
Ordination history of
John O'Connor
History
Priestly ordination
PlaceCathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul Edit this on Wikidata, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Edit this on Wikidata, United States Edit this on Wikidata
Episcopal consecration
Consecrated byPope John Paul II
DateMay 27, 1979
PlaceSt. Peter's Basilica Edit this on Wikidata, Rome Edit this on Wikidata, Italy Edit this on Wikidata
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by John O'Connor as principal consecrator
Alfred JolsonFebruary 6, 1988
Patrick SheridanDecember 12, 1990
James Michael MoynihanMay 29, 1995
Edwin Frederick O'BrienMarch 25, 1996
Robert Anthony BrucatoAugust 25, 1997
James Francis McCarthyJune 29, 1999

John Joseph O'Connor (January 15, 1920 – May 3, 2000) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of New York from 1984 until his death in 2000, and was made a cardinal in 1985.

O'Connor previously served as a U.S. Navy chaplain (1952 to 1979), including four years as chief of chaplains, as an auxiliary bishop of the Military Vicariate of the United States (1979 to 1983), and as Bishop of Scranton from 1983 to 1984.

Biography

Early life

John O'Connor was born in Philadelphia on January 15, 1920, the fourth of five children of Thomas J. O'Connor, and Dorothy Magdalene (née Gomple) O'Connor. Thomas was a painter and Dorothy was the daughter of Gustave Gumpel, a kosher butcher and Jewish rabbi. In 2014, it was discovered that Dorothy was baptized a Catholic at age 19 and that the couple wed one year later.

O'Connor attended public schools in Philadelphia until his junior year of high school, when he enrolled in West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys. Having decided to become a priest, he then enrolled at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.

Priesthood

After graduating from St. Charles, O'Connor was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on December 15, 1945, in Philadelphia by Auxiliary Bishop Hugh L. Lamb. After his 1945 ordination, the archdiocese assigned O'Connor as a faculty member at St. James High School in Chester, Pennsylvania. During this seven-year period, O'Connor obtained a Master of Arts degree in advanced ethics from Villanova University in Philadelphia and a Master of Arts degree in clinical psychology from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Rear Admiral O'Connor in the US Navy Chaplain Corps

O'Connor joined the United States Navy Chaplain Corps in 1952 during the Korean War.He was eventually named rear admiral and chief of chaplains of the Navy in 1975.He obtained approval for the establishment of the RP Enlisted Rating, and oversaw the process of standing up this rating. The RP rating provided chaplains with a dedicated enlisted community. The Vatican named O'Connor as an honorary prelate of his holiness on October 27, 1966.

O'Connor received a doctorate in political science from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he studied under future United Nations ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick said of O'Connor that he was "... surely one of the two or three smartest graduate students I've ever had."

Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Vicariate US

On April 24, 1979, Pope John Paul II appointed O'Connor as an auxiliary bishop of the Military Vicariate for the United States and titular bishop of Cursola. He was consecrated to the episcopate on May 27, 1979, at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome by John Paul himself, with Cardinals Duraisamy Lourdusamy and Eduardo Somalo acting as co-consecrators.

Bishop of Scranton

On May 6, 1983, John Paul II named O'Connor as bishop of Scranton; he was installed in that position on June 29, 1983.

Archbishop of New York

Styles of
John O'Connor
Reference styleHis Eminence
Spoken styleYour Eminence
Informal styleCardinal
SeeNew York

On January 26, 1984, after the death of Cardinal Terence Cooke, O'Connor was appointed archbishop of New York and administrator of the Military Vicariate by John Paul II; O'Connor was installed on March 19, 1984.

O'Connor was elevated to cardinal in the May 25, 1985, consistory, with the titular church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Rome (the traditional one for the Archbishop of New York from 1946 to 2009).

On December 10, 1989, 4,500 members of ACT UP and Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM) demonstrated at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan to voice their opposition to O'Connor's positions on HIV/AIDS education, the distribution of condoms in public schools, and abortion rights for women. Police arrested 43 protestors from inside the cathedral.

Throughout his tenure as archbishop of New York, Cardinal O’Connor advocated on behalf of many groups whom he believed to be downtrodden, but there was no group that he advocated for more strongly than the unborn. To that end, O’Connor started a religious order of women known as the Sisters of Life, which still exists today.

O’Connor enjoyed a close relationship with Saint Pope John Paul II, and both leaders were very similar in their emphasis, including a focus on the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death. When naming O’Connor the Archbishop of New York in 1984, the pope is purported to have said “I want someone like myself in New York”. In 1995, for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, Pope Saint John Paul II visited New York and while there, O’Connor hosted him at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral for a rosary service on October 7, 1995 for which O’Connor tapped Joseph Polchinski to be one of the servers.

Illness and death

When O'Connor reached the retirement age for bishops of 75 years in January 1995, he submitted his resignation to Pope John Paul II as required by canon law. However the pope did not accept the resignation. O'Connor was diagnosed in 1999 with a brain tumor. He continued to serve as Archbishop of New York until his death.

O'Connor died in the archbishop's residence in Manhattan on May 3, 2000. He was interred in the crypt beneath the main altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral. His funeral was presided over by Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano. At O'Connor's request, Cardinal Bernard F. Law delivered the homily and Cardinal William W. Baum the eulogy. Attendees at O'Connor's funeral included:

Legacy

Congressional Gold Medal awarded to O'Connor

The New York Times called O'Connor "a familiar and towering presence, a leader whose views and personality were forcefully injected into the great civic debates of his time, a man who considered himself a conciliator, but who never hesitated to be a combatant", and one of the Catholic Church's "most powerful symbols on moral and political issues."

According to New York City Mayor Ed Koch: "Cardinal O'Connor was a great man, but he was like the Pentagon. He was incapable of saving money."

Awards

Viewpoints

Human life

O'Connor was a forceful opponent of abortion, human cloning, capital punishment, human trafficking, and unjust war.

  • O'Connor in 1996 assailed what he called the "horror of euthanasia", asking rhetorically, "What makes us think that permitted lawful suicide will not become obligated suicide?"
  • In 2000, O'Connor called for a "major overhaul" of the punitive Rockefeller drug laws in New York State, which he believed produced "grave injustices".

US foreign policy

Organized labor

In 1984, SEIU 1199, the largest health care workers union in New York City, went on strike against the League of Voluntary Hospitals, of which the archdiocesan hospitals were members. O'Connor strongly criticized the League for threatening to fire striking union members. He called it "strikebreaking" and vowed that no Catholic hospital would participate in such an action . After a year of stalled negotiations, O'Connor threatened to make a separate agreement with the SEIU 1199 "that gives justice to the workers". In a Labor Day homily at St. Patrick's in 1986, O'Connor said:

"o many of our freedoms in this country, so much of the building up of society, is precisely attributable to the union movement, a movement that I personally will defend despite the weakness of some of its members, despite the corruption with which we are all familiar that pervades all society, a movement that I personally will defend with my life."

In 1987, the television broadcast employees' union went on strike against the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). At one point, a non-union crew from NBC appeared at O'Connor's residence to cover a press conference. O'Connor declined to admit them, directing his secretary to "tell them they're not invited."

Following O'Connor's death in 2002 , SEIU 1199 called him "the patron saint of working people". It described his support for low-wage and other workers, his efforts in helping the limousine drivers unionize, his help in mediating a labor strike at The Daily News, and his pushing for fringe benefits for minimum-wage home health care workers.

Relations with Jewish community

  • In 1987, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel called O'Connor, "a good Christian" and a man "who understands our pain."
  • O'Connor in 1996 strongly denounced anti-Semitism, declaring that one "cannot be a faithful Christian and an anti-Semite. They are incompatible, because anti-Semitism is a sin." He wrote an apology to Jewish leaders in New York City for past harm committed by the Catholic Church to the Jewish community.
  • In 1998, O'Connor criticized the failure of Swiss banks to compensate Jewish Holocaust victims whose stolen assets had been deposited in Switzerland during World War II by German Nazi leaders. He called it "a human rights issue, an issue of the human race." Even when disagreeing with him over political questions, Jewish leaders acknowledged that O'Connor was "a friend, a powerful voice against anti-Semitism".
  • The Jewish Council for Public Affairs in 2000 called O'Connor "a true friend and champion of Catholic–Jewish relations, a humanitarian who used the power of his pulpit to advocate for disadvantaged people throughout the world and in his own community."

Relations with the LGBT community

See also: Catholic Church and homosexuality

HIV/AIDS

In the early 1980s, O'Connor opened a specialized HIV/AIDS medical unit in St. Clare's Hospital in Manhattan, the first of its kind in the state. ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) protested in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1987, holding placards such as "Cardinal O'Connor Loves Gay People ... If They Are Dying of AIDS."

O'Connor made an effort to minister to 1,000 people dying of HIV/AIDS and their families, following up on other HIV/AIDS patients. He visited Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, where he cleaned the sores and emptied the bedpans of more than 1,100 patients. According to reports, O'Connor was popular with the Saint Vincent's patients, many of whom did not know he was the archbishop, and was supportive of other priests who ministered to gay men and others with HIV/AIDS.

In 1987, US President Ronald Reagan appointed O'Connor to the President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic, also known as the Watkins Commission. O'Connor served with 12 other members, few of whom were HIV/AIDS experts. HIV/AIDS researchers and activists initially criticized the commission members as lacking expertise on the disease and as being in disarray. The commission report in 1988 called for anti-bias laws to protect HIV-positive patients, on-demand treatment for those with substance abuse problems, and the speeding of HIV/AIDS-related research. The New York Times praised the commission's "remarkable strides" and its proposed $2 billion campaign against HIV/AIDS among drug users.

Hate crimes against LGBTQ

O'Connor led the 1990 funeral Mass at St. Joseph's Church in Staten Island for James Zappalorti, a murdered gay man. O'Connor later endorsed a statewide hate crime law that included crimes motivated by sexual orientation, which passed shortly after his own death in 2000.

Job discrimination against LGBTQ

O'Connor actively opposed an attempt by the City of New York to outlaw sexual discrimination by its contractors. In 1980, Mayor Ed Koch issued Executive Order 50, which required all city contractors, including religious entities, to provide services on a non-discriminatory basis with respect to race, creed, age, sex, handicap, as well as "sexual orientation or affectational preference".

When the city warned the Salvation Army that its contracts for child care services would be canceled if it failed to comply, the archdiocese threatened to cancel its contracts if given the same warning. O'Connor maintained that the executive order would cause the Catholic Church to appear to condone homosexual activity. Writing in Catholic New York in January 1985, O'Connor characterized the order as "an exceedingly dangerous precedent invite unacceptable governmental intrusion into and excessive entanglement with the Church's conducting of its own internal affairs." Drawing the traditional Catholic distinction between homosexual "inclinations" and "behavior", he stated that "we do not believe that homosexual behavior ... should be elevated to a protected category."

We do not believe that religious agencies should be required to employ those engaging in or advocating homosexual behavior. We are willing to consider on a case-by-case basis the employment of individuals who have engaged in or may at some future time engage in homosexual behavior. We approach those who have engaged in or may engage in what the Church considers illicit heterosexual behavior the same way. ...We believe, however, that only a religious agency itself can properly determine the requirements of any particular job within that agency, and whether or not a particular individual meets or is reasonably likely to meet such requirements.

After a protracted legal battle, the New York Court of Appeals in 1986 upheld lower court decisions striking down Executive Order 50.

O'Connor opposed city and state legislation guaranteeing LGBTQ civil rights, including legislation prohibiting discrimination based upon sexual orientation in housing, public accommodations and employment.

St. Patrick's Day parade and LGBTQ participation

O'Connor supported the 1993 decision by the Ancient Order of Hibernians, which operated the St. Patrick's Day parade in Manhattan, from barring the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization from marching under its own banner . The Hibernians argued that the First Amendment of the US Constitution protected their decision and that they could not be compelled to admit a group whose beliefs conflicted with theirs. The city subsequently denied the Hibernians a permit for the parade. However, in 1993, a federal judge in New York held that the city's permit denial was "patently unconstitutional" because the parade was private, not public, and constituted "a pristine form of speech" as to which the parade sponsor had a right to control the content and tone.

In 1987, O'Connor prohibited DignityUSA, an organization of LGBTQ Catholics, from holding Masses in parishes in the archdiocese. After eight years of protests by the group, O'Connor started meeting with the DignityUSA twice a year.

Condom use for HIV/AIDS prevention

See also: Catholic Church and HIV/AIDS

O'Connor opposed condom distribution as an HIV/AIDS-prevention measure. He viewed condom use as contravening the Catholic Church's teaching that contraception is immoral and its use a sin. O'Connor rejected the argument that condoms distributed to gay men were not contraceptives. O'Connor's response was that using an "evil act" was not justified by good intentions, and that the church should not be seen as encouraging sinful acts among others (other fertile heterosexual couples who might wrongly interpret his narrow support as license for their own contraception).

O'Connor in 1993 stated that sexual abstinence is a sure way to prevent HIV/AIDs infection. He claimed condoms were only 50% effective against HIV transmission. HIV activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) criticized the cardinal's opinion, leading to confrontations between the group and O'Connor.

Theodore McCarrick

In April 1986, O'Connor strongly endorsed the appointment of Theodore McCarrick, then bishop of the Diocese of Metuchen, as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Newark. However, In 1992 and 1993, O'Connor received several anonymous letters accusing McCarrick of sexually abusing seminarians, which he then shared with McCarrick. In 1994, before a papal visit by Pope John Paul II to the United States, the apostolic nuncio to the U.S., Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan, became concerned about the pope visiting Newark, He had heard rumors that McCarrick had engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior in Newark with seminarians. O'Connor conducted an investigation for Cacciavillan and concluded that there were "no impediments" to visiting that city.

In October 1996, when two psychiatrists judged that a priest's charge of sexual abuse by McCarrick was credible, O'Connor remained skeptical. That same month, however, he intervened to prevent a priest "too closely identified" with McCarrick from becoming an auxiliary bishop. O'Connor cited "a rather unsettled climate of opinion about certain issues" in Newark.

In October 1999, when John Paul II was considering transferring McCarrick to a more important archdiocese, O'Connor wrote a letter to the apostolic nuncio to the U.S. and the Congregation for Bishops. It summarized the charges against McCarrick, especially his repeatedly arrangement of seminarians and other men to share his bed anc concluded: "I regret that I would have to recommend very strongly against such promotion." According to reports, the pope did read the letter

McCarrick learned about O'Connor's letter from contacts in the Curia. In August 2000, several months after O'Connor's death, McCarrick sent a rebuttal to John Paul II, which allegedly convinced the pope to appoint him archbishop of Washington. McCarrick resigned from the College of Cardinals in 2018 and was laicized in 2019.

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Preceded byThomas Benjamin Fulton — TITULAR —
Bishop of Cursola
1979–1983
Succeeded byPedro Luís Guido Scarpa
Preceded byJ. Carroll McCormick Bishop of Scranton
1983–1984
Succeeded byJames Timlin
Preceded byTerence Cooke Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York
1984–2000
Succeeded byEdward Egan
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
1985–2000
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1975–1979
Succeeded byRoss H. Trower
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Edwin Frederick O'Brien
Dennis Joseph Sullivan
Auxiliary bishops,
former, deceased
Patrick Vincent Ahern
Edwin Broderick
Thomas Cusack
Edward Vincent Dargin
Joseph Patrick Donahue
John Joseph Dunn
John Michael Fearns
Joseph Francis Flannelly
Francisco Garmendia
William Jerome McCormack
James Griffiths
George Henry Guilfoyle
Edward Dennis Head
Walter P. Kellenberg
John Joseph Maguire
James Patrick Mahoney
William Jerome McCormack
James Francis McIntyre
Anthony Francis Mestice
Emerson John Moore
Joseph Thomas O'Keefe
Joseph Maria Pernicone
Fulton J. Sheen
Patrick Joseph Thomas Sheridan
Austin Bernard Vaughan
Robert Anthony Brucato
Bishops who served as
priests in the archdiocese,
living
Charles Daniel Balvo
Charles John Brown
William Muhm
Bishops who served as
priests in the archdiocese,
deceased
St. John Nepomucene Neumann
Patrick Aloysius O'Boyle
Charles H. Colton
John J. Conroy
Philip Joseph Furlong
Charles Edward McDonnell
Francis Patrick McFarland
Francis McNeirny
Bernard John Joseph McQuaid
Rrok Kola Mirdita
John Joseph Mitty
Joseph Thomas Dimino
William Quarter
Francis Frederick Reh
Joseph Francis Rummel
William Scully
Churches in the Archdiocese of New York
Archdiocese
Cathedral
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan
Former cathedral
Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral
New York City
Bronx
Blessed Sacrament Church
Church of the Sacred Heart
Christ the King's Church
Holy Cross Church
Immaculate Conception Church
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church
Our Lady of Mercy's Church
Our Lady of Mount Carmel's Church
Our Lady of the Nativity of Our Blessed Lady's Church
Our Lady of Solace's Church
St. Angela Merici's Church
St. Anselm's Church
St. Ann's Church
St. Anthony's Church
St. Anthony of Padua Church
St. Athanasius's Church
St. Augustine's Church
St. Barnabas' Church
St. Brendan's Church
St. Clare of Assisi's Church
St. Dominic's Church
St. Frances de Chantal's Church
St. Frances of Rome's Church
St. Francis Xavier's Church
St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church
St. Helena's Church
St. Jerome's Church
St. Joan of Arc's Church
St. John's Church
St. John Chrysostom's Church
St. Joseph's Church
St. Lucy's Church
St. Luke's Church
St. Margaret Mary's Church
St. Margaret of Cortona's Church
St. Martin of Tours' Church
St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church
St. Pius V's Church
St. Raymond's Church
Church of St. Simon Stock
St. Theresa of the Infant Jesus Church
SS. Peter and Paul's Church
Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Manhattan
All Saints Church
Church of the Annunciation
Chapel of the Resurrection
Church of Notre Dame
Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Church of Our Lady of Sorrows
Church of Our Lady of the Scapular–St. Stephen
Church of Sts. Cyril & Methodius and St. Raphael
Church of St. Catherine of Genoa
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
Church of St. Joseph
Church of St. Michael
Church of St. Vincent Ferrer
Church of the Ascension, Roman Catholic
Church of the Blessed Sacrament
Church of the Epiphany
Church of the Good Shepherd
Church of the Holy Agony
Church of the Holy Family
Church of the Incarnation, Roman Catholic
Church of the Most Precious Blood
Church of the Nativity
Chapel of the Resurrection
Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Church of the Transfiguration, Roman Catholic
Corpus Christi Church
Holy Cross Church
Holy Innocents Church
Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic Church
Holy Rosary Church
Holy Trinity Church
Immaculate Conception Church
Our Lady of Esperanza Church
Our Lady of Good Counsel Church
Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Bernard Church
Our Lady of Lourdes Church
Our Lady of the Holy Rosary's Church
Our Lady of Pompeii Church
Our Lady of Victory Church
Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church
Our Saviour Church
San Lorenzo Ruiz Chapel
St. Agnes Church
St. Aloysius Catholic Church
St. Andrew Church
St. Ann Church
St. Anthony of Padua Church
St. Benedict the Moor Church
St. Catherine of Siena Church
St. Cecilia Church and Convent
St. Charles Borromeo Church
St. Elizabeth Church
St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church
St. Emeric Church
St. Francis of Assisi Church
St. Francis Xavier Church
St. Gregory the Great Church
St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church
St. John the Baptist Church
St. John the Evangelist Church
St. Joseph of the Holy Family Church
St. Joseph Chapel
St. Jude Church
St. Lucy Church
St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church
St. Mark the Evangelist Church
St. Mary Church
St. Monica Church
St. Patrick's Old Cathedral
St. Paul Church
St. Paul the Apostle Church
St. Peter's Church
St. Rose of Lima Church
St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Church
St. Stephen of Hungary Church
St. Teresa Church
St. Thomas More Church
St. Veronica Church
Slovenian Church of St. Cyril
Staten Island
Church of Our Lady Help of Christians
Church of Our Lady of Pity
Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace
Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea
Church of the Blessed Sacrament
Church of the Holy Family
Our Lady of Good Counsel's Church
Sacred Heart Church
St. Adalbert's Church
St. Charles's Church
St. Clare's Church
St. Mary's Church
St. Patrick's Church
St. Peter's Church
St. Rita's Church
St. Roch's Church
St. Teresa of the Infant Jesus's Church
Dutchess County
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Church (LaGrangeville)
Church of Regina Coeli (Hyde Park)
Church of St. Martin de Porres (Poughkeepsie)
Church of St. Mary, Mother of the Church (Fishkill)
St. Mary's Church (Poughkeepsie)
St. Mary's Church (Wappingers Falls)
Church of the Good Shepherd (Rhinebeck)
Immaculate Conception Church (Amenia)
Immaculate Conception Church (Bangall)
Our Lady of Mount Carmel's Church (Poughkeepsie)
St. Anthony's Church (Pine Plains)
St. Charles Borromeo's Church (Dover Plains)
St. Christopher's Church (Red Hook)
St. Columba's Church (Hopewell Junction)
St. Denis Church (Hopewell Junction)
St. Joachim and St. John the Evangelist's Church (Beacon)
St. John the Evangelist's Church (Pawling)
St. Joseph's Chapel (Rhinecliff)
St. Joseph's Church (Millbrook)
St. Patrick's Chapel (Millerton)
St. Paul's Chapel (Staatsburg)
St. Peter's Church (Poughkeepsie)
St. Sylvia's Church (Tivoli)
Orange County
Putnam County
Rockland County
Sullivan County
Ulster County
Westchester County
Blessed Sacrament Church (New Rochelle)
Church of the Holy Family (New Rochelle)
Church of the Resurrection (Rye)
Church of St. Augustine (Larchmont)
Church of St. Joseph (Bronxville)
Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Scarsdale)
Immaculate Conception Church (Tuckahoe)
Immaculate Conception St. Mary's (Yonkers)
Most Holy Trinity Church (Mamaroneck)
Our Lady of Mercy Church (Port Chester)
St. Gabriel's Church (New Rochelle)
St. Vito's Church (Mamaroneck)
St. Vito-Most Holy Trinity Parish (Mamaroneck)
Education in the Archdiocese of New York
Archdiocese
Seminaries
Saint Joseph's Seminary
Charities
List of Catholic charities in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
Universities and colleges
Fordham University
Iona University
Manhattan University
University of Mount Saint Vincent
New York City
Bronx high schools
Academy of Mount St. Ursula
All Hallows High School
Cardinal Hayes High School
Cardinal Spellman High School
Fordham Preparatory School
Monsignor Scanlan High School
Mount Saint Michael Academy
Preston High School
St. Barnabas High School
St. Catharine Academy
St. Raymond Academy
St. Raymond High School for Boys
Manhattan high schools
Cathedral High School
Convent of the Sacred Heart
Cristo Rey New York High School
Dominican Academy
La Salle Academy
Loyola School
Marymount School of New York
Notre Dame School
Regis High School
St. George Academy
St. Jean Baptiste High School
St. Vincent Ferrer High School
Xavier High School
Staten Island high schools
Monsignor Farrell High School
Moore Catholic High School
Notre Dame Academy
St. Joseph by the Sea High School
St. Joseph Hill Academy
St. Peter's Boys High School
Dutchess CountyOur Lady of Lourdes High School
Orange CountyJohn S. Burke Catholic High School
Rockland CountyAlbertus Magnus High School
Westchester County
Iona Preparatory School
John F. Kennedy Catholic High School
Maria Regina High School
Sacred Heart High School
Salesian High School
School of the Holy Child
Archbishop Stepinac High School
The Montfort Academy
The Ursuline School
Closed
John A. Coleman Catholic High School
College of New Rochelle
Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton
Bishops
Ordinaries
William O'Hara
Michael John Hoban
Thomas Charles O'Reilly
William Joseph Hafey
Jerome Daniel Hannan
Joseph Carroll McCormick
John Joseph O'Connor
James Clifford Timlin
Joseph Francis Martino
Joseph Charles Bambera
Auxiliary bishops
Andrew James Louis Brennan
Martin John O'Connor
Henry Theophilus Klonowski
James Clifford Timlin
Francis X. DiLorenzo
John M. Dougherty
Diocesan priests who became bishops
Eugene A. Garvey
Joseph R. Kopacz
Jeffrey Walsh
Churches
Cathedral
St. Peter's Cathedral, Scranton
Basilica
Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Ann, Scranton
Parishes
St. Gabriel's Catholic Parish Complex, Hazleton
Parishes, former
St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, Wilkes-Barre
Education
Higher education
King's College
Marywood University
Misericordia University
University of Scranton
High schools
Holy Cross High School, Dunmore
Holy Redeemer High School, Wilkes-Barre
Notre Dame J/SHS, East Stroudsburg
Scranton Preparatory School, Scranton
St. John Neumann Regional Academy High School, Williamsport
High schools, closed
South Scranton Catholic High School
Miscellany
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Ordinaries
Bishops
Michael Francis Egan
Henry Conwell
Francis Kenrick
John Neumann
Archbishops
James Frederick Wood
Patrick John Ryan
Edmond Francis Prendergast
Dennis Joseph Dougherty
John Francis O'Hara
John Krol
Anthony Bevilacqua
Justin Rigali
Charles J. Chaput
Nelson J. Pérez
Auxiliary bishops, current
John J. McIntyre
Keith J. Chylinski
Christopher R. Cooke
Efren V. Esmilla
Auxiliary bishops, former
Cletus Joseph Benjamin
Michael Francis Burbidge
Joseph R. Cistone
Michael Joseph Crane
Edward Peter Cullen
Louis A. DeSimone
Francis James Furey
John Joseph Graham
Edward Hughes
Hugh L. Lamb
Martin Nicholas Lohmuller
Robert P. Maginnis
Joseph Francis Martino
Joseph Carroll McCormick
John Joseph McCort
Gerald Vincent McDevitt
Joseph P. McFadden
Joseph Mark McShea
Gerald O'Hara
Francis B. Schulte
Daniel Edward Thomas
Thomas Jerome Welsh
Edward Michael Deliman
Michael J. Fitzgerald
Timothy C. Senior
Churches
Cathedral
Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul
Parish churches
List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Immaculate Conception
Old St. Joseph
Old St. Mary
St. Adalbert
St. Agatha and St. James
St. Anne
St. Augustine
St. Basil the Great
St. Cyprian
St. Donato
St. Francis de Sales
St. Joachim
St. Michael
St. Nicholas of Tolentine
St. Thomas the Apostle Church
St. William
Chapels and shrines
Church of the Gesú
National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa
National Shrine of St. John Neumann
Former
Holy Trinity
Education
Seminary
St. Charles Borromeo Seminary
Higher education
Chestnut Hill College
Gwynedd Mercy University
Holy Family University
Immaculata University
La Salle University
Neumann University
Rosemont College
Saint Joseph's University
Villanova University
High schools
Acad. of Notre Dame de Namur
Archbishop John Carroll
Archbishop Prendergast
Archbishop Ryan
Archbishop Wood
Bishop McDevitt
Bishop Shanahan
Cardinal O'Hara
Conwell-Egan
Country Day School of the Sacred Heart
Devon Prep
Father Judge
Gwynedd Mercy Academy
Holy Ghost Prep
John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls
La Salle College HS
Lansdale Catholic
Little Flower
Malvern Prep
Mercy Career & Technical
Merion Mercy Acad.
Monsignor Bonner
Mount Saint Joseph Acad.
Nazareth Acad.
Pope John Paul II
Roman Catholic HS for Boys
Saint Basil Academy
Saint Joseph's Prep
Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti
St. Hubert Catholic High School for Girls
Villa Joseph Marie
Villa Maria Academy
Closed
Priests
Living
Edward Joseph Adams
Herbert Bevard
Michael J. Bransfield
Joseph L. Coffey
James Green
Joseph A. Pepe
Nelson J. Pérez
Deceased
Joseph Anthony Galante
Francis Brennan
Edwin Byrne
George Aloysius Carrell
Hubert James Cartwright
Joseph M. Corrigan
Joseph Thomas Daley
Edmond John Fitzmaurice
John Edmund Fitzmaurice
John Patrick Foley
Francis Xavier Gartland
Daniel James Gercke
Michael Hurley
Ignatius Frederick Horstmann
John Hughes
Francis Edward Hyland
Francis W. Kelly
Thomas Francis Kennedy
Philip R. McDevitt
Thomas Joseph McDonough
Thomas McGovern
Eugene J. McGuinness
William Matthews
John Joseph O'Connor
William O'Hara
Jeremiah F. Shanahan
John W. Shanahan
David B. Thompson
Francis X. DiLorenzo
Miscellany
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