archdiocese
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Over the decades, the archdiocese leased the land to several oil companies including Standard Oil of California.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
Hicks, who will lead the second-largest U.S. archdiocese, with 2.5 million members, grew up in South Holland, Ill., just south of Chicago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
While Pope Leo spent two decades as a missionary in Peru, Hicks worked at an orphanage in El Salvador from 2005 to 2010, according to a biography released by the New York archdiocese.
From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has appointed a bishop from Illinois as the new leader of New York’s Catholic archdiocese, succeeding conservative Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who is retiring.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
“It is the belief of the archdiocese that the occurrences of the past few days are but a taste of what is to come,” Father Mulrooney continued.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
