{"id":74415,"date":"2025-12-18T14:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74415\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:45:06","slug":"pope-leo-picks-chicago-area-bishop-to-succeed-dolan-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74415\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo Picks Chicago-Area Bishop to Succeed Dolan in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of Cardinal Timothy Dolan and appointed Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet, Illinois, to lead the Archdiocese of New York, placing a Chicago-area prelate in charge of one of the most visible Catholic posts in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">In a letter to parishioners on Thursday, Dolan announced that Hicks will be installed as the new archbishop on Feb. 6 at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in Manhattan. The archdiocese covers Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island and stretches north into the suburbs, serving about 2.5 million Catholics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of Cardinal Timothy Dolan and appointed Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet, Illinois,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8287,12565,37167,5350,2301,2710,75,9,24,55,54,56,1491,134,5944],"class_list":["post-74415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-chicago","tag-christmas","tag-diocese-of-joliet","tag-illinois","tag-immigration","tag-law","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-real-estate","tag-staten-island","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74415","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=74415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}