{"id":452843,"date":"2025-12-17T08:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/452843\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T08:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:42:16","slug":"cardinal-dolan-to-be-replaced-as-head-of-ny-archdiocese-by-illinois-bishop-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/452843\/","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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\">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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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":3,"featured_media":452844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-452843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115734023143325888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}