Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn
Diocese of Brooklyn Dioecesis Bruklyniensis | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens (Queens County) |
Ecclesiastical province | Archdiocese of New York |
Metropolitan | 310 Prospect Park West Brooklyn, New York, 11215 |
Statistics | |
Area | 179 sq mi (460 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2013) 4,882,000 1,567,000 (32.1%) |
Schools | 119 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | July 29, 1853 |
Cathedral | Cathedral Basilica of St. James |
Co-cathedral | Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph |
Secular priests | 544 |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan Archbishop of New York |
Auxiliary Bishops | Octavio Cisneros Paul Robert Sanchez Raymond Francis Chappetto James Massa Witold Mroziewski Neil Edward Tiedemann |
Bishops emeritus | René Arnold Valero Guy Sansaricq |
Map | |
Website | |
dioceseofbrooklyn.org |
The Diocese of Brooklyn is a diocese of the Catholic Church in the U.S. state of New York. It is headquartered in Brooklyn and its territory encompasses the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of New York. The diocesan cathedral is the Cathedral Basilica of St. James in Downtown Brooklyn and its co-cathedral is the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Prospect Heights. The current diocesan bishop is Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio.
Brooklyn is one of the few dioceses in the United States that is made up of 100% urban territory.[1]
The Bishop of Brooklyn presides from both the Cathedral Basilica of St. James and the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph. This atypical arrangement was required due to the small size of the Cathedral Basilica of St. James. St. Joseph's Church was designated as a Co-Cathedral for the Diocese of Brooklyn on February 14, 2013, by Pope Benedict XVI after Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio petitioned the Vatican. [2]
History
The diocese was established in 1853 out of the territory of the Archdiocese of New York, at a time when Brooklyn was still a separate city from New York City.[3] It originally included all of Long Island, but its present-day territory was established in 1957 when Nassau and Suffolk Counties were split to form the Diocese of Rockville Centre.[4]
Reports of Sex Abuse and Settlement
In June 2017,[5] the Diocese acknowledged that it had made compensation payments to more than 120 victims.[6] In November 2017, the Diocese of Brooklyn released the names of eight clergy who worked in the Diocese and were credibly accused of sexually abusing minors.[7] On September 18, 2018, it was announced that four men who said they were abused by a church worker as children would receive a total of $27.5 million as part of a settlement with the Diocese of Brooklyn, in what the victims’ lawyers said was one of the largest U.S. awards paid to individual victims of Catholic Church-related abuse.[8] Each man would receive $6.875 million.[8]
Bishops
The lists of the bishops and auxiliary bishops of the diocese and their years of service, followed by other priests of the diocese who became bishops:
Bishops of Brooklyn
- John Loughlin (1853–1891)
- Charles Edward McDonnell (1892–1921)
- Thomas Edmund Molloy (1922–1956), elevated to Archbishop (ad personam) in 1951
- Bryan Joseph McEntegart (1957–1968), elevated to Archbishop (ad personam) in 1966
- Francis Mugavero (1968–1990)
- Thomas Vose Daily (1990–2003)
- Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio (2003–present)
Auxiliary Bishops
- George Mundelein (1909–1915), appointed Archbishop of Chicago (elevated to Cardinal in 1924)
- Raymond Augustine Kearney (1934–1956)
- John Joseph Boardman (1952–1977)
- Edmund Joseph Reilly (1955–1958)
- Joseph Peter Michael Denning (1959–1982)
- Charles Richard Mulrooney (1959–1981)
- John J. Snyder (1972–1979), appointed Bishop of Saint Augustine
- Joseph Michael Sullivan (1980–2005)
- René Arnold Valero (1980–2005)
- Anthony Bevilacqua (1980–1983), appointed Bishop of Pittsburgh and later Archbishop of Philadelphia (elevated to Cardinal in 1991)
- Ignatius Anthony Catanello (1994–2010)
- Gerald Barbarito (1994–1999), appointed Bishop of Palm Beach
- Frank Joseph Caggiano (2006-2013), appointed Bishop of Bridgeport
- Octavio Cisneros (2006-present)
- Guy Sansaricq (2006–2010)
- Paul Robert Sanchez (2012-present)
- Raymond Francis Chappetto (2012-present)
- James Massa (2015-present)
- Witold Mroziewski (2015-present)
- Neil Edward Tiedemann (2016-present)
Other priests of the diocese who became bishops
- George J. Caruana, appointed Bishop of Puerto Rico and later Apostolic Nuncio and Apostolic Delegate and Titular Archbishop
- James Henry Ambrose Griffiths, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of New York
- John Joseph Carberry, appointed Coadjutor Bishop and later Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana, Bishop of Columbus, and Archbishop of Saint Louis (elevated to Cardinal in 1969)
- Vincent John Baldwin, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre
- John R. McGann, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre and later Bishop of Rockville Centre
- James Joseph Daly, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre
- Gerald Augustine John Ryan, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre
- Emil Aloysius Wcela, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre
- Vincent DePaul Breen, appointed Bishop of Metuchen
- Edward Bernard Scharfenberger, appointed Bishop of Albany
Education
The bishop is also the true principal of the diocese's pre-seminary high school, Cathedral Preparatory Seminary. As of March 2009, Cathedral Preparatory Seminary is the only full-time high school seminary in the nation[citation needed]. Three Diocesan and/or parish high schools are under the auspices of the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens[citation needed].
High schools
There are three Diocesan and/or parish high schools under the auspices of the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens. While the Catholic high schools below may geographically lie within the diocese, most are run independently of it. [9]
Brooklyn
- Bishop Kearney High School
- Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
- Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School
- Fontbonne Hall Academy
- Nazareth Regional High School
- St. Edmund Preparatory High School
- St. Joseph High School
- Saint Saviour High School of Brooklyn
- Xaverian High School
Queens
- Archbishop Molloy High School
- Cathedral Preparatory Seminary
- Christ the King Regional High School
- Holy Cross High School
- Monsignor McClancy Memorial High School
- St. Agnes High School
- St. Francis Preparatory School
- St. John's Preparatory School
- The Mary Louis Academy
Elementary schools
There were 116 Diocesan and parish elementary schools in the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens in March 2009. In the fall of 2009, a new free tuition school called the Pope John Paul II Family Academy [10] opened [11] at St. Barbara's School in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
The following eight schools have closed,[12] reducing the total number of schools to 111:
- Flatbush Catholic Academy
- Most Precious Blood School
- St. Benedict Joseph Labre School
- St. Catherine of Sienna School
- St. Aloysius School
- St. Ann School
- Blessed Sacrament School
- Ss. Joseph and Dominic Catholic Academy
Cemeteries
There are nine Catholic cemeteries serving the Diocese of Brooklyn; two in Brooklyn, five in Queens and three outside the Diocese of Brooklyn.
Brooklyn
- Holy Cross Cemetery
- Most Holy Trinity Cemetery
Queens
- Saint John Cemetery
- Mount St. Mary Cemetery
- St. Monica Cemetery
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cemetery
- Calvary
Outside of the Diocese of Brooklyn
- St. Charles / Resurrection Cemeteries
- Trinity Cemetery
- St. Mary Star of the Sea Cemetery
Hospitals
References
- ^ Coen, Joseph W.; McNamara, Patrick, J.; Vaccari, Peter I. Diocese of Immigrants: The Brooklyn Catholic Experience 1853-2003, Éditions du Signe, 2004. ISBN 2-7468-0912-5. p. 120
- ^ http://dioceseofbrooklyn.org/homepage/co-cathedral-st-joseph/
- ^ http://www.dioceseofbrooklyn.org/about/diocesan_stats.aspx
- ^ Who We Are," Diocese of Rockville Centre website (accessed 2009-November–02).
- ^ http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/diocese-brooklyn-sets-fund-victims-clergy-sex-abuse-article-1.3267789
- ^ https://dioceseofbrooklyn.org/diocese-brooklyn-announces-independent-reconciliation-compensation-program-survivors-clergy-sexual-abuse/
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/nyregion/brooklyn-diocese-priests-sexual-abuse.html
- ^ a b https://www.wsj.com/articles/brooklyn-diocese-reaches-multimillion-dollar-settlement-in-sex-abuse-case-1537312151
- ^ "Catholic High Schools". Diocese of Brooklyn website. Archived from the original on May 1, 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
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- ^ Pope John Pall II Family Academy official site
- ^ NY Daily News (2009-02-13). "Church saves six schools, closes eight others in Brooklyn & Queens". Retrieved 2009-03-20.