Archbishop-designate Ronald Hicks is preparing to be installed Friday as the 11th archbishop of New York.<\/p>\n
\tHicks held a news conference Thursday at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in Midtown, where the special installation Mass will take place. <\/p>\n
The archbishop-designate comes to the Archdiocese of New York after spending the last five years leading the Diocese of Jolliet in Illinois. <\/p>\n
Hicks was born and raised in the south suburbs of Chicago \u2013 just 14 blocks from where Pope Leo the 14th grew up. <\/p>\n
Hicks previously served as a missionary in Latin America, including five years in El Salvador. <\/p>\n
He said part of his theme during the installation Mass will be about building bridges and a stronger faith.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cNew York is a place where the whole world lives and calls home; and the Catholic Church is universal, gathering and engaging everyone,\u201d said Hicks. <\/p>\n
The 58-year-old succeeds Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who served the Archdiocese of New York since 2009 and reached the church\u2019s mandatory retirement age of 75. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Archbishop-designate Ronald Hicks is preparing to be installed Friday as the 11th archbishop of New York. Hicks held…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-124118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}