McQuaid, from the Diocese of New York as the first bishop of Rochester. He transferred eight counties ( Monroe, Livingston, Wayne, Ontario, Seneca, Cayuga, Yates, and Tompkins) from the Diocese of Buffalo to the new diocese. The Diocese of Rochester was erected on March 3, 1868, by Pius IX. Patrick's Cathedral in Rochester (1868-1937) Pope Pius IX erected the Diocese of Buffalo in 1847, include all of the present day Diocese of Rochester. In 1832, the first church in Geneva, New York, St. The first church in the future City of Rochester was St. In Auburn, the first mass for non-native Catholics was held in a private residence in 1816. On April 8, 1808, Pope Pius VII erected the Diocese of New York, taking all of New York State from the Diocese of Baltimore. On November 6, 1789, the same pope raised this prefecture to the Diocese of Baltimore. On November 26, 1784, Pope Pius VI erected the Apostolic Prefecture of United States of America, including all of the new United States. This was soon followed by the same guarantee in the US Bill of Rights. “.in New York, one may find a Catholic here and there, but they have no opportunity of practicing their religion as no priest visits them, and … there is not much likelihood that Catholic priests will be permitted to enter these provinces." ĭuring the American Revolution, the new State of New York in 1777 approved a constitution that guaranteed freedom of worship for Catholics. In 1763, Catholic Bishop Richard Challoner of London stated that:
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The penalty for harboring a Catholic was a £250 fine plus three days in the pillory. Richard Coote, the first colonial governor, passed a law at the end of the 17th century that mandated a life sentence to any Catholic priest. The diocese includes the following counties:ĭuring the Dutch and British rule of the Province of New York in the 17th and 18th centuries, Catholics were banned from the colony. The Diocese of Rochester extends from Lake Ontario through Rochester, New York and the Finger Lakes region to part of the Southern Tier region near the New York- Pennsylvania border. The diocese comprises 12 counties with approximately 350,000 Catholics and over 125 faith communities (parishes and chapels), 22 diocesan elementary schools and seven independent parochial high schools. The patron saint of the diocese is English Bishop John Fisher. The cathedral parish for the diocese is Sacred Heart Cathedral in Rochester. The metropolitan for the diocese is the archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York, currently Cardinal Timothy Dolan. The bishop of the diocese is currently Salvatore Matano. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester is a diocese of the Catholic Church in the Upstate region of New York State in the United States. Counties of Monroe, Cayuga, Livingston, Wayne, Tioga, Tompkins, Ontario, Seneca, Schuyler, Yates, Steuben and Chemung, New York
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