{"id":73011,"date":"2025-12-17T04:41:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73011\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T04:41:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:41:27","slug":"cardinal-dolan-to-be-replaced-as-head-of-ny-archdiocese-by-illinois-bishop-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73011\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Dolan to be replaced as head of NY archdiocese by Illinois bishop: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Cardinal Dolan will be replaced as head of the Archdiocese of New York in the coming days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjol.com\/exclusive-bishop-hicks-to-become-archbishop-of-new-york\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiple news reports state<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo is expected to appoint Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet, Ill., to replace Dolan as Archbishop of New York and head of the second-largest archdiocese in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Newsmax \u201cSaturday Agenda\u201d host Rob Astorino \u2014 who co-hosted a radio program with Dolan on SiriusXM\u2019s Catholic radio channel \u2014 hinted at Hicks\u2019 appointment in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RobAstorino\/status\/2000676841825141044\" rel=\"nofollow\">an X post<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrong rumors that @Pontifex has accepted the resignation of @CardinalDolan and will appoint Bishop Ron Hicks of Joliet, Illinois,\u201d Astorino posted. \u201cThe move would signal the end of Dolan\u2019s 16-year tenure as the highest-ranking prelate in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Dolan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecatholicthing.org\/2025\/02\/10\/cardinal-timothy-dolan-of-new-york-resigns-at-75\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">submitted his resignation in February<\/a> after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.<\/p>\n<p>Hicks, 58, has overseen the Diocese of Joliet \u2014 located roughly 30 miles outside of Chicago, where Pope Leo was born \u2014 since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The bishop from Illinois previously served as the auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Chicago from 2018 to 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to overseeing the Archdiocese of New York, <a href=\"https:\/\/archny.org\/about\/cardinal-dolan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pope St. John Paul II appointed Dolan as archbishop of Milwaukee<\/a> in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The archbishop of New York has served in t<a href=\"https:\/\/archny.org\/about\/cardinal-dolan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wo papal conclaves<\/a>, first electing Pope Francis following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, before serving in the conclave to elect the current holy father now expected to accept his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Dolan was named a cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Timothy Cardinal Dolan will be replaced as head of the Archdiocese of New York in the coming days,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,264,12,56],"class_list":["post-73011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73011","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=73011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}