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Diocese of Ogdensburg
Dioecesis Ogdensburgensis
Catholic
St. Mary's Cathedral
St. Mary's Cathedral
Location
Country United States
Territory Counties of St. Lawrence, Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Hamilton and northern Herkimer, New York
Ecclesiastical province Archdiocese of New York
Coordinates 44°42′02″N 75°28′52″W / 44.70056°N 75.48111°W
Statistics
Area 12,036 sq mi (31,170 km2)
Population
Total
Catholics 		(as of 2020)
421,694
108,096[1] (25.6%)
Parishes 84
Information
Denomination Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established February 16, 1872
Cathedral St. Mary's Cathedral
Patron saint Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception[2]
Current leadership
Pope Leo XIV
Bishop Terry Ronald LaValley
Metropolitan Archbishop Ronald Hicks
Map
Website
rcdony.org

The Diocese of Ogdensburg (Latin: Dioecesis Ogdensburgensis) is a diocese of the Catholic Church in the North Country region of New York State in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of New York. Its cathedral is St. Mary's in Ogdensburg. Founded in 1872, it comprises the entirety of Clinton, Essex, Lewis, Hamilton and St. Lawrence counties and the northern portion of Herkimer county. The bishop is Terry R. LaValley.

History

1600 to 1777

The North Country of New York was inhabited by the Iroquois/Haudenosaunee Native Americans when the first French, Dutch, and English fur-traders arrived in the 1600s. The few Catholics in the area were served by missionary priests from the Diocese of Quebec in the French colony of New France.[3]

During the Dutch and British rule of the Province of New York in the 17th and 18th centuries, Catholics were banned from the colony.[4] Richard Coote, the first colonial governor, passed a law at the end of the 17th century that mandated a life sentence to any Catholic priest. The penalty for harboring a Catholic was a £250 fine plus three days in the pillory. In 1763, Catholic Bishop Richard Challoner of London stated that "there is not much likelihood that Catholic priests will be permitted to enter these provinces."[4]

However, much of the North Country was still disputed territory between France and Great Britain, allowing Catholics more freedom to reside there. In 1749, the Sulpician priest François Picquet traveled from Montreal to establish the Mission of The Holy Trinity at Fort de La Présentation near present-day Ogdensburg. The mission fort was established to evangelize the Haudenosaunee as well as to raid British settlements. Bishop Henri-Marie de Pontbriand of Quebec visited the fort in 1752. During the French and Indian War, Fort de la Présentation was garrisoned by French-Canadian military, but later abandoned in favor of Fort Lévis.[5]

1777 to 1808

The New York Legislature passed a constitution in 1777 that guaranteed freedom of worship for Catholics. At this time, the state was technically under the jurisdiction of the Vicariate of London. In 1784, when the Apostolic Prefecture of United States of America was erected, it included all of the new United States. In 1789, this prefecture became the Diocese of Baltimore.[6]

The first new settlers in the North Country were Protestants from New England. It was only towards 1790 that Acadian Catholic immigrants began settling around Corbeau, now Coopersville, near Lake Champlain. They were occasionally visited by French missionaries from Fort Laprairie in the British Province of Lower Canada.[5]

1808 to 1872

In 1808, the Diocese of New York was erected. It covered all of New York State.[7] In 1818, Jacques Leray, son of Count Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, established a colony of French and German Catholics in Jefferson County. Leray built several churches for the immigrants as well as for an existing Irish settlement. At the same time, Irish and French Canadian immigrants began to arrive, prompting the diocese to found missions for them.[5] In Potsdam, the first mass was celebrated in a private home in 1832.

By 1833, the Diocese of New York had established congregations in Ogdensburg, Carthage, and Plattsburgh. Each of them served a number of mission stations. The village of Minerva was served by J. Quinn, who travelled there from Troy, 100 miles away. The first Catholic church in Malone was constructed in 1837.[3] In Watertown, the first Catholic church was opened in 1838.[8]

In 1847, Pope Pius IX erected the Diocese of Albany, removing all of Upstate New York from the Diocese of New York.[9] The establishment of mills and factories in the North Country attracted a large influx of Irish Catholic immigrants. The diocese then established new missions at Antwerp, Belleville, and Canton; and parishes at Cape Vincent, Hogansburg, and Keeseville. In 1860, Bishop John McCloskey of Albany placed the parish at Carthage under interdict for two years when violent confrontations erupted among the parishioners.[10]

1872 to 1939

On February 16, 1872, Pius IX erected the Diocese of Ogdensburg, taking the entire North Country region from the Diocese of Albany. The Pope named Edgar Wadhams of Albany as the first bishop of the new diocese.[11]

One of Wadham's first projects was to expand the small St. Mary's Church in Ogdensburg into a proper cathedral, adding a sacristy, stained glass windows, and a sanctuary. He also recruited priests from Quebec and Europe for the new congregations. He founded and improved schools in Carthage, Plattsburgh, Ogdensburg, Keeseville, Hogansburg and Brasher Falls.[10] Wadhams invited several women's religious orders to the diocese, where they opened orphanages, schools, and hospitals. He held three diocesan synods. In 1885, Wadhams acquired a former mansion in Ogdensburg to create the Ogdensburg City Hospital and Orphans Asylum.[10] He died in 1891.

The second bishop of Ogdensburg was Henry Gabriels of Albany, appointed by Pope Leo XIII in 1891. Gabriels was responsible for the growth and development of the Catholic Summer School at Cliff Haven near Plattsburgh, serving 10,000 people annually.[12] In 1894, the Gabriels Sanitarium for tuberculosis patients opened in Gabriels, New York.[13] Gabriels died in 1921. Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Conroy replaced Gabriels as bishop.[14] In 1936, Monaghan was appointed coadjutor bishop of Ogdensburg.

1939 to 1993

Conroy served in Ogdensburg until his death in 1939. After he died, Monaghan succeeded him as the next bishop of Ogdensburg. Monaghan died three years later in an accident. Bryan McEntegart replaced Monaghan. Shortly after his installation, the Cathedral of Ogdensburg was destroyed by fire; McEntegart oversaw construction of a new edifice that was completed in less than a year.[15] McEntegart resigned in 1953 and become rector of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.[16]

Pius XII appointed Auxiliary Bishop Walter P. Kellenberg as the next bishop of Ogdensburg. During his short tenure, Kellenberg expanded the diocese's Departments of Education and Catechetics and increased the number of parochial schools.[17] Kellenberg was named by the same pope as the first bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre in 1957. Pius XII then selected Auxiliary Bishop James Navagh of the Diocese of Raleigh that same year to serve as bishop of Ogdensburg.[18] He founded Mater Dei College in Ogdensburg in 1960.[19]

In May 1963, Pope John XXIII selected Auxiliary Bishop Leo Smith of the Diocese of Buffalo as bishop of Ogdensburg. However, Smith died later that year.[20] Pope Paul VI in 1964 then named Thomas Donnellan to replace Smith.[21][22] Four years later in 1968, Donnellan transferred to the Archdiocese of Atlanta.

Auxiliary Bishop Stanislaus Brzana of Buffalo was the next bishop of Ogdensburg, as of 1968.[23] He established several churches and education centers, and was active in regional civic and social activities, including caring for striking miners and their families.[24] Brzana served 25 years as bishop in Ogdensburg, retiring in 1993.

1993 to present

In 1993, Pope John Paul II appointed Auxiliary Bishop Paul Loverde of the Archdiocese of Hartford as the eleventh bishop of Ogdensburg.[25][26] In 1999, he closed Mater Dei College.[27] Loverde in 1998 was named by John Paul II as bishop of the Diocese of Arlington.

John Paul II replaced Loverde in Ogdensburg with Auxiliary Bishop Gerald Barbarito of the Diocese of Brooklyn that same year. In 2003, John Paul II selected Barbarito as the next bishop of the Diocese of Palm Beach.[28] The next bishop of Ogdensburg was Monsignor Robert J. Cunningham of Buffalo, named by John Paul II in 2004. Pope Benedict XVI appointed Cunningham as bishop of the Diocese of Syracuse in 2004.[29]

The current bishop of Ogdensburg, the 14th bishop since 1872, is Terry R. LaValley, named by Benedict XVI in 2010.[30] The diocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July 2023.

Sex abuse

John J. Fallon, pastor of Holy Angels Parish in Altona, was arrested in September 1985 on charges of mailing child pornography. A film processing lab had discovered 15 images of nude boys on a film disc that Fallon sent them and reported it to the US Postal Service. Police found more pornographic images at his residence.[31] He pleaded guilty to charges in December 1985 and was sentenced to five years probation along with inpatient treatment. In 1988, the diocese placed him as chaplain at St. Joseph's Home in Ogdensburg.[32] In a July 2020 lawsuit against the diocese, four men accused Fallon of sexually abusing them during the 1970s and 1980s at three parishes in the diocese.[33]

In May 2018, Bishop LaValley expressed his opposition to the proposed New York Child Victims Act, which created a one-year window for adults to sue for sexual abuse crimes. That same year, LaValley started a compensation program for sexual abuse victims within the diocese. In an interview, the bishop made this comment about the scandal:[34] "The Church screwed up big time and people have been hurt immeasurably."[34]

In February 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Child Victims Act. The law created a one-year lookback period in which victims of child sex abuse could file civil lawsuits against abusers that were previously barred by the statute of limitations.[35] By the time that the Child Victims Act has passed, the diocese had already paid nearly $5.5 million to settle previous lawsuits.[36] Twenty-three more lawsuits were filed immediately after the bill's signing.[36]

In May 2020, the Child Victims Act's statute of limitation deadline was extended from August 2020, to January 2021.[37] By July 2020, two more law firms announced that they had filed 20 additional sex abuse lawsuits against the diocese.[38] In July 2023, the diocese stated that it could no longer afford to pay settlements and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Utica.[39]

Bishops

Bishops of Ogdensburg

  1. Edgar Philip Prindle Wadhams (1872–1891)
  2. Henry Gabriels (1892–1921), former rector of St Joseph's Seminary in Troy, New York
  3. Joseph Henry Conroy (1921–1939)
  4. Francis Joseph Monaghan (1939–1942; coadjutor bishop 1936–1939)
  5. Bryan Joseph McEntegart (1943–1953), appointed rector of The Catholic University of America and later Bishop of Brooklyn and Archbishop (ad personam)
  6. Walter P. Kellenberg (1954–1957), appointed in 1957 Bishop of Rockville Centre
  7. James Johnston Navagh (1957–1963), appointed Bishop of Paterson
  8. Leo Richard Smith (1963)
  9. Thomas Andrew Donnellan (1964–1968), appointed Archbishop of Atlanta
  10. Stanislaus Joseph Brzana (1968–1994)
  11. Paul Stephen Loverde (1994–1999), appointed Bishop of Arlington
  12. Gerald Michael Barbarito (2000–2003), appointed Bishop of Palm Beach
  13. Robert Joseph Cunningham (2004–2009), appointed Bishop of Syracuse
  14. Terry R. LaValley (2010–present)

Former auxiliary bishop

Other diocesan priest who became bishop

High schools

Canonical status and jurisdiction

Diocese of Ogdensburg is a diocese of the catholic church of the Catholic Church.[40]

From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

Diocese of Ogdensburg — (Ogdensburgdensis).

Comprises the northern towns of Herkimer and Hamilton counties, with the counties of Lewis, Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Franklin, Clinton, and Essex in New York. On the north and east it is bounded by Canada and Vermont and by Lake Ontario on the west. It covers 12,036 square miles, to a great extent occupied by the wooded wilderness of the Adirondack Mountains which, however, of late is rapidly opening up for summer resorts and tuberculosis sanatoria. The soil is mostly rocky and sandy and it supports but a relatively small population which is decreasing in the rural districts, but slowly increasing in industrial and iron mining centres.

The territory was formerly the scene of frequent bloody conflicts between the Iroquois and the Hurons and Algonquins, and also between the French and the British. In 1749 the Sulpician, Francis Picquet, established on the banks of the St. Lawrence, where Ogdensburg now is located, the Fort of the Presentation, to protect the Christian Mohawks, who were, however, scattered by the English ten years later. There is still a reservation called St. Regis, part in Canada (with about 2000 Indians), partly in the State of New York (with about 1200), where the descendants of the former savage tribes of the country, Christianized in the seventeenth century and still nearly all Catholics, worship together and sing the choral part of the Divine services in Iroquois. The first white settlers were Protestants from New England. It was only towards 1790 that Acadian Catholic immigrants occupied lands around Corbeau, now Cooperville, near Lake Champlain, where they were occasionally visited by missionaries from Fort La Prarie, Canada. In 1818, a colony of French and German Catholics was brought to Jefferson County by Count Leray de Chaumont, who built for them, and also for an Irish settlement, several Catholic churches. At the same time Irish and French Canadian immigrants began to arrive and soon there arose Catholic missions in various parts of the future diocese which still belonged to New York.

The first congregations were formed at Ogdensburg in 1827 by Father Salmon, at Carthage by Father Patrick Kelly, at Cooperville in 1818 by Father Mignault, at Plattsburg in 1828 by Father Patrick McGilligan, at Hogansburg in 1836 by Rev. John McNulty. Bishops Dubois, Hughes, and McCloskey visited these parishes and others that were arising in the lumbering and mining districts of the region. After the Papineau rebellion in Canada (1838) many Canadian Catholics settled on American soil, and soon after the famine brought thousands of Irish emigrants into the territory. Bishop Hughes erected in 1838 a theological seminary at Lafargeville near Clayton; but it was transferred in 1840 to Fordham near New York. The Catholic Summer School of America, commenced at New London in 1892, was in 1893 definitely located at Plattsburg and has met with great success. It is a place of learning and recreation for thousands of Catholics of the surrounding country. Attendance at its courses procures teaching diplomas in the State of New York.

The diocese was separated from the Diocese of Albany on 15 February, 1872. The first bishop was the Rt. Rev. Edgar P. Wadhams, b. 1817 at Lewis, Essex County. He was a convert from the Episcopalian Church, in which he had been a deacon. He was rector of the cathedral and Vicar-General of Albany, when called to organize Northern New York into a new diocese. He was consecrated at Albany on 5 May 1872, by Archbishop, later Cardinal, McCloskey. Bishop Wadhams increased the number of parishes and priests and introduced several religious communities; he founded Catholic schools and erected an orphan asylum, a hospital, and an aged people's home. At his death, 5 December, 1891, the churches and chapels had increased from 65 to 125; priests from 42 to 81; nuns from 23 to 129 and Catholic schools from 7 to 20; the Catholic population had risen from 50,000 to 65,000.

Bishop Wadhams attended the New York Provincial Council of 1883 and the Plenary Council of Baltimore of 1884, and held three diocesan synods. His remains are buried in the crypt of St. Mary's Cathedral which he had enlarged and embellished.

Henry Gabriels, born at Wannegem-Lede, Belgium, on 6 October 1838, graduated at Louvain as a priest of the Diocese of Ghent and was invited with three other Belgian priests to teach in the newly-founded provincial seminary of Troy, New York. He was appointed professor of dogma and afterwards was professor of church history until 1891. He was consecrated at Albany on 5 May 1892 by Archbishop Corrigan. The new bishop developed the work begun by his predecessor. He strengthened the Catholic schools although some of the smaller ones had to be closed; he introduced four new religious communities. Bishop Gabriels has made two visits ad limina, besides other trips to Rome. The former elements of the Catholic population, Irish, French and German, must for permanency rely on their own fecundity. There are a reasonable number of conversions annually, but a new immigration of Poles, Italians, Hungarians, Greeks, Maronites, and others, largely threatens to modify the Catholic body. Yet till now none are numerous enough to form separate congregations except the Poles who are building a church in Mineville.

Statistics

Religious Communities: Men: Oblates of Mary Immaculate, 5 priests, 2 brothers; Friars Minor, 3 priests, 2 brothers; Fathers of the Sacred Heart of Issoudun, 6 priests; Augustinians, 2 priests; Brothers of Christian Instruction (Lamennais), 12 brothers. Women: Gray Nuns of the Cross, 6 houses; Sisters of Mercy, 7; Sisters of St. Joseph, 4; sisters of St. Francis, 1; Sisters of the Holy Cross, 2; Ursulines, 1; Daughters of the Holy Ghost, 1; Daughters of Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 1; Priests, secular, 119; regular, 16; churches, 150; parishes, 8; stations, 79; chapels, 21; brothers 19; nuns 240; ecclesiastical students, 20; academies, 13; parochial schools, 15; orphanages, 2; hospitals, 6; home for the aged poor, 1; baptisms in 1909: infants, 3617; adults, 302; marriages, 862; Catholic population over 92,000.

SHEA, History of Cath. Church in United States (New York 1894-----); WALWORTH, Reminiscences of Bishop Wadhams (New York, 1893); Smith, Hist. Of Dioc. Of Ogdensburg (New York, 1885); Illus. Hist. Of Cath. Church in America. Ed. BEGNI (New York, 1910); Curtis, St. Lawrence County (Syracuse, 1894).

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