{"id":127866,"date":"2026-02-09T19:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127866\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:08:47","slug":"cardinal-timothy-dolan-to-co-chaplain-nypd-commissioner-tisch-is-expected-to-announce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127866\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Timothy Dolan to co-chaplain NYPD, commissioner Tisch is expected to announce"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral on Feb. 5, 2026.<\/p>\n

Photos by Dean Moses<\/p>\n

Cardinal Timothy Dolan<\/a> has a new calling. The former archbishop of New York will soon serve as co-chaplain of the NYPD<\/a>, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch is expected to announce on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

According to sources familiar with the appointment, the announcement will come during Tisch\u2019s State of the NYPD address on Feb. 10, and will see Dolan and Reverend A.R Bernard, who founded Christian Cultural Center megachurch in Brooklyn, named as the department\u2019s co-chaplains.<\/p>\n

Tisch said she was seeking one quality when it came to finding the right people to lead the religious unit: \u201cRighteousness.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I was thinking about who should fill this role, one Hebrew word kept coming to mind \u2014 \u201cTzadik,\u201d a person of righteousness,\u201d Tisch said. \u201cCardinal Timothy Dolan and Reverend A.R. Bernard are two of the most righteous people this City has ever known. They are two men of incredible faith whose life and leadership embody the moral clarity, compassion, and wisdom our officers rely on in their hardest moments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, Dolan handed over the reins of St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral to Archbishop Ronald Hicks during a historic ceremony<\/a> attended by thousands, including NYPD Chief of Department Michael LiPetri. Pope Leo XIV appointed Hicks to lead the 2.8 million Roman Catholics in the Archdiocese of New York after accepting Dolan\u2019s mandatory resignation last year upon turning 75.<\/p>\n

Yet even at 76, Dolan won\u2019t be retiring from public service in the city, according to the commissioner.\n<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Bernard is an esteemed religious leader in his own right with an estimated 37,000 members of his church. Both men will be assigned to lead the NYPD faithful on a part-time basis. The NYPD chaplain provides religious guidance to thousands of uniformed members.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFor decades, they have helped shape the spiritual life of this city through leadership that reaches far beyond their pulpits. Their decision to serve the NYPD speaks to something enduring between faith and policing, and to the place the Chief Chaplain role has long held in the lives of the men and women who wear the shield,\u201d Tisch added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardinal Timothy Dolan at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral on Feb. 5, 2026. Photos by Dean Moses Cardinal Timothy Dolan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,103,55230,33997],"class_list":{"0":"post-127866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-nypd","12":"tag-police-commissioner-jessica-tisch","13":"tag-timothy-dolan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127866","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=127866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}