Many people, including Catholics, look on the archbishop of New York as the leader of the U.S. Catholic Church. With this appointment, the pope has picked an archbishop who could lead the archdiocese ...

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Pope Leo XIV named Thursday a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York to lead one of the biggest U.S.

New York’s next archbishop is being heralded a “unifier” who will stick firmly to papal doctrine — just don’t expect to see ...

Bishop Ronald Hicks, head of the Diocese of Joliet in Pope Leon’s home state of Illinois, will take over the Archdiocese of New York.

The Archdiocese of New York has a new leader. Pope Leo XIV on Thursday made his most important U.S. appointment to date, ...

Pope Leo has appointed Bishop Ronald Hicks to replace Cardinal Timothy Dolan, a friend of President Donald Trump who has served in the position since 2009, as New York’s newest archbishop, a major ...

The Archdiocese of New York is among the most preeminent pastoral offices in the country — and one currently entangled in financial crisis.

Bishop Ronald Hicks, the current bishop of Joliet, Illinois, replaces the retiring Cardinal Timothy Dolan, a prominent conservative figure in the US Catholic hierarchy.