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November 4, 2014

NY archdiocese, one of the world’s grandest, shrinks

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York presides at an August Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. The Archdiocese of New York announced it will close more than 30 by August 2015 as part of a reorganization initiative that will merge 116 parishes i nto 56.

NEW YORK - The Archdiocese of New York, with the second-largest Catholic population in the country and an unparalleled place in U.S. Church history, is shrinking: Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Nov. 2 announced that nearly a third of the archdiocese’s 368 parishes would be merging, and some would close.

Published in International