February 23, 2009
Pope Names Milwaukee’s Dolan as New York Archbishop
by Peter S. Green
Bloomberg
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Pope Benedict XVI named Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan to replace Cardinal Edward Egan as archbishop of New York, a post the late Pope John Paul II once called "the archbishop of the capital of the world."
Dolan, who will be installed in a ceremony at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan on April 15, will become the city's 13th bishop and its 10th archbishop, a post held throughout history almost entirely by Irish-Americans. He celebrated Mass this morning at the cathedral and will visit a seminary north of the city later today.
Dolan, 59, will lead the Archdiocese of New York, which has 388 parishes and more than 650 priests. It serves some 2.5 million Catholics in a community where Catholicism has to compete with evangelical Protestant and Pentecostal churches for the attention of new immigrants, many from traditionally Catholic Spanish-speaking countries.
Roughly one-third of American adults who were raised Catholic have left the church, according to a survey last year by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, a non-denominational research group.
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