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Diocese of Scranton
Dioecesis Scrantonensis
St. Peter's Cathedral
St. Peter's Cathedral
Location
Country United States of America
Territory Northeastern Pennsylvania
Ecclesiastical province Philadelphia
Statistics
Area 22,913 km2 (8,847 sq mi)
Population
Total
Catholics 		(as of 2023)
1,098,910 (est.)
317,429 (28.9%)
Parishes 114
Churches 167
Schools 19
Information
Denomination Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established March 3, 1868
Cathedral St. Peter's Cathedral
Patron saint Peter
Secular priests 214 (diocesan)
41 (Religious Orders)
93 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope Leo XIV
Bishop Joseph Bambera
Metropolitan Archbishop Nelson J. Perez
Bishops emeritus Joseph Martino
Map
Website
dioceseofscranton.org

The Diocese of Scranton (Latin: Dioecesis Scrantonensis) is a diocese of the Catholic Church in northeastern Pennsylvania in the United States. Established in 1868, it is a suffragan see of Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The mother church is St. Peter's Cathedral in Scranton.

Territory

The Diocese of Scranton includes the cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Williamsport, Hazleton, Nanticoke, Carbondale and Pittston. The diocese comprises Lackawanna, Luzerne, Bradford, Susquehanna, Wayne, Tioga, Sullivan, Wyoming, Lycoming, Pike, and Monroe counties. The area of the diocese is 8,487 square miles (21,980 km2).

Early history

1700 to 1800

Unlike the other British colonies in America, the Province of Pennsylvania did not ban Catholics from the colony or threaten priests with imprisonment. However, the colony did require any Catholics seeking public office to take an oath declaring the Mass to be idolatrous and denying the presence of Christ in the eucharist.[1]

In 1784, a year after the end of the American Revolution, Pope Pius VI erected the Apostolic Prefecture of United States of America, including all of the new United States. In 1787, James Pellentz traveled from Baltimore up the Susquehanna River into northeast Pennsylvania to minister to the Catholics scattered throughout the region.[2]

In 1789, Pius VI converted the prefecture to the Diocese of Baltimore, covering all of the United States.[3] With the passage of the US Bill of Rights in 1791, Catholics received full freedom of worship.

In 1793, the French Catholic settlement of French Azilum was founded on the banks of the Susquehanna River near Standing Stone. It was meant as a refuge for French aristocrats fleeing persecution in the French Revolution and slave uprisings in the French colony of Saint-Domingue.[4]

1800 to 1860

In 1808, Pope Pius VII erected the Diocese of Philadelphia, covering all of Pennsylvania.[5] Northeastern Pennsylvania would remain part of this new diocese for the next 60 years.

The first Catholic settlers in northeastern Pennsylvania were mainly of Irish and German descent. The earliest permanent Catholic settlements in the region were founded at Friendsville in 1819 and Silver Lake in 1813.[6] Catholic residents of these settlements, along with others in the region, occasionally saw priests sent from the Diocese of Philadelphia. In 1825, Bishop Francis Kenrick sent John O'Flynn to the region to serve as its first resident pastor. He was responsible for Catholic residents in thirteen counties in northeastern Pennsylvania and five counties in the Southern Tier of New York.

The first church in northeastern Pennsylvania was built in 1825 near Silver Lake. O'Flynn died at Danville in 1829, and was succeeded by William Clancy. Clancy departed the region in 1834 and in 1836 the diocese sent Henry Fitzsimmons to replace him. Fitzsimmons took up his residence in Carbondale, where a church had been built in 1832. In 1838, the diocese sent John Vincent O'Reilly to assist in the region. He took up his residence at Silver Lake.

St. Mary's church, finished in 1842, was the first Catholic church in Wilkes-Barre.[7] The first one in Scranton was built in 1852 on the site of the present day Church of Nativity.[8] In Williamsport, a German group erected the first Catholic church, St. Boniface, in 1855.[9]

1860 to 1900

The Diocese of Scranton was erected on March 3, 1868, its territory coming from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. William O'Hara of Philadelphia was the first bishop. The diocese had a Catholic population of 25,000 with 47 churches, 25 priests, and two parochial schools.[10] By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Slavic and Italian immigrants, attracted by jobs in the coal-mining industry, comprised half of the Catholic population in the diocese.

In 1896, Pope Leo XIII appointed Michael Hoban as coadjutor bishop of the diocese to assist O'Hara.[11] Later in 1896, a schism erupted at Sacred Hearts Parish in the coal mining area of the diocese. The English-speaking miners in the parish were suspicious of an influx of Polish immigrants into the mine fields. The Polish parishioners did not like how their German pastor ran the parish. In October 1896, 250 families left the parish, built a new church and requested recognition from the diocese for St. Stanislaus as a new parish. Hoban refused to give it. In March 1887, the Polish priest Frances Hodur became the pastor of St. Stanislaus; Hoban suspended him the next week. In September 1898, Hodur submitted a compromise proposal to Hoban, which he rejected. In October 1898, Hoban excommunicated Hodur. He and his congregation eventually set up the Polish National Catholic Church, living in schism with the Roman Catholic Church.[12]

When O'Hara died in 1899 after 31 years as bishop, the diocese had a Catholic population of 125,000, with 78 churches, 130 priests, and 40 parochial schools with 12,000 students.[10] Hoban became the second bishop of Scranton in 1899 after O'Hara's death.

1900 to 1984

After Hoban's death in 1926, Thomas O'Reilly from the Diocese of Cleveland was named the third bishop of Scranton.[13] During his tenure, he established seven parishes and fourteen schools in the diocese, despite the Great Depression.[14] Bishop William Hafey from the Diocese of Raleigh became coadjutor bishop in 1936. Hafey became bishop of Scranton after O'Reilly died in 1938.[15] Hafey oversaw the creation of new parishes. During his tenure the number of priests and religious increased.[16] He died in 1954 after 18 years in office.

Jerome Hannan of the Diocese of Pittsburgh became the next bishop of Scranton in 1954.[17] During his tenure, Hannan oversaw the construction of the chancery building and in 1962 Saint Pius X Seminary in Dalton.[18] Hannan died in 1965. His successor was Bishop J. Carroll McCormick from the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, in 1966. McCormick retired in 1983.[19] Auxiliary Bishop John O'Connor from the Military Vicariate for the United States succeeded him as bishop of Scranton. O'Connor served less than a year before being elevated to archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York in 1984.

1984 to 2000

In 1984, Auxiliary Bishop James Timlin of Scranton began his term as eighth bishop of the diocese.[20] Timlin was the first native of Scranton to become its bishop.[21] During his tenure, Timlin held the Second Diocesan Synod, established the Bishop's Annual Appeal and presided over a major restructuring of parishes as a result of the priest shortage. He introduced a new policy for Catholic schools consisting of regional mergers, construction of modern facilities, new fundraising efforts and a more equitable sharing of operational costs between parents, pastors and the diocese.[21]

In 1985, Timlin announced that he would boycott two events honoring Catholic congressmen because of their support of abortion rights for women. One was Peter W. Rodino Jr. The other was Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill Jr.[22] In 2003, Timlin refused to attend the commencement ceremonies for the University of Scranton because of the pro-choice stance of honorary-degree recipient Chris Matthews.[23][24]

2000 to present

After Timlin retired in 2002, John Paul II named Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Martino of Philadelphia in 2003 as the next bishop of Scranton.[25] In 2004, the diocese closed Saint Pius X Seminary due to decreased enrollment.[18] In January 2007, Martino closed Bishop O'Reilly, Seton Catholic, Bishop Hafey, Bishop Hoban, Bishop O'Hara, and Bishop Hannan high schools, along with several grade schools. In total he closed about 30 schools. In January 2009, Martino announced that, due to a priest shortage and diminishing financial resources, the diocese would either close or consolidate almost half of its 209 parishes.[26]

In 2008, Martino decertified the Scranton Diocese Association of Catholic Teachers, which had functioned in the diocese for 30 years. He replaced it with a diocesan association of teachers. The head of the teachers union described this new organization as a "company union".[27]

When the presidents of four Catholic universities and colleges in the diocese asked to meet with Martino, he asked to see syllabi of all their courses on religion, faith, and morals. The presidents refused this request, stating that their professors owned the syllabi.[27] According to a 2009 report in National Catholic Reporter, the apostolic nuncio to the United States received numerous complaints about Martino's management style, his lack of consultation with others, and his remoteness.[27] Martino retired early in 2009.

In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Joseph C. Bambera as the tenth bishop of the diocese.[28][29] As of 2025, Bambera is the current bishop of the diocese.

Bishops

Bishops of Scranton

  1. William O'Hara (1868–1899)[30]
  2. Michael Hoban (1899–1927; coadjutor bishop 1896–1899)
  3. Thomas C. O'Reilly (1927–1938)
  4. William Hafey (1938–1954; coadjutor bishop 1937–1938)
  5. Jerome Hannan (1954–1965)
  6. J. Carroll McCormick (1966–1983)
  7. John O'Connor (1983–1984), appointed Archbishop of New York (Cardinal in 1985)
  8. James Timlin (1984–2003)
  9. Joseph Martino (2003–2009)
  10. Joseph Bambera (2010–present)

Former auxiliary bishops

Other diocesan priests who became bishops

Education

In 1842, John O'Reilly opened the first Catholic college in the region at St. Joseph's Parish in Susquehanna County. Over its 22 years of its existence, the college educated two bishops and over 20 priests. Destroyed by fire in 1864, the college was never rebuilt.[8]

In the 1940s, the diocese opened the South Scranton Catholic High School, later named Bishop Klonowski High School. The school closed in 1982.[31] Bishop Martino in 2007 closed all the high schools in Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties, replacing them with Holy Cross High School in Dumore and Holy Redeemer High School in Wilkes-Barre.

In 2010, Bishop Bambera announced the closure of four elementary school sites. As of 2025, the diocese has 15 elementary schools and four high schools.[32]

Higher education

High Schools

As of 2025, the diocese operates the following high schools[32]

Elementary schools

As of 2025, the diocese operates the following elementary schools.[32]

Non-diocesan school

Scranton Preparatory School – Scranton is an independent high school operated by the Society of Jesus.[33]

Sex abuse investigation

1960 to 2010

In August 1968, a Hazelton police office wrote to Bishop McCormick about Robert N. Caparelli, then assistant pastor at Most Precious Blood Parish in Hazelton. The officer stated that a woman had complained to him about the relationship between Caparelli and her two young sons. This information was confirmed by the church pastor. McCormick then transferred Caparelli to a new parish. In 1974, a Pennsylvania State Police trooper confronted Caparelli with accusations of sexual abuse of different victims. Caparelli admitted guilt, and was transferred to another diocese.[34]

Caparelli was charged in 1991 with the sexual assault in 1985 of a minor in 1985. He pleaded guilty in December 1991 and was sentenced to two to five years in prison.[35] That same month, the victim sued the diocese. In 1993, Bishop Timlin sent a letter to the court, asking it to transfer Caparelli to a Catholic treatment facility. Caparelli died in 1994. More of his victims contacted the diocese in later years.[34]

2010 to 2020

In early 2016, a grand jury investigation led by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro began an inquiry into sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in six Pennsylvania dioceses, including the Diocese of Scranton.[36] In July 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered the public release of a redacted copy of the grand jury report.[37] In August 2018, Bishop Bambera stated that he would cooperate with the investigation and publish the list of "credibly accused clergy".[38] The grand jury report later that month showed 59 clergy from the diocese with credible accusation of sexual abuse of children.[39]

In August 2018, Bambera forbade Timlin from representing the diocese in public, given Timlin's failure to protect children from abusers.[40] The 2018 grand jury report had criticized Timlin's handling of sexual abuse allegations against Thomas Skotek, a priest at St Casimir Parish in Freeland. Between 1980 and 1985, Skotek had raped and eventually impregnated a teenage girl in the parish. In October 1986, after Timlin learned about the crime, he sent Skotek to Saint Luke Institute in Silver Spring, Maryland for psychological evaluation. In 1987, after Skotek returned to the diocese, Timlin reassigned him to St. Aloysius Parish in Wilkes-Barre. Timlin never notified parishioners in St. Aloysius or civil authorities about Skotek's rape of the girl.[41] Bambera himself had served as the vicar for priests for the diocese from 1995 to 1998, and he admitted helping Timlin reassign a priest who had abused a minor, although the decision was made by Timlin.[40] Bambera emphasized that since becoming bishop in 2010, he has pursued a zero-tolerance policy toward clerical abuse.[40]

In August 2018, King's College in Wilkes-Barre announced that it was removing McCormick's name from the chapel and campus ministry.[42] That same month, the University of Scranton removed McCormick and Timlin's names from its facilities.[43]

Books

Canonical status and jurisdiction

Diocese of Scranton is a diocese of the catholic church of the Catholic Church.[44]

From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

Diocese of Scranton — (Scrantonensis).

A suffragan see of Philadelphia, U.S.A., established on 3 March, 1868, comprises the Counties of Lackawanna, Luzerne, Bradford, Susquehanna, Wayne, Tioga, Sullivan, Wyoming, Lycoming, Pike, and Monree, all in the north-east part of Pennsylvania; area, 8,487 sq. miles.

Scranton, the episcopal see, is in the heart of the anthracite region and is a progressive city of 130,000 inhabitants (1910). Other large cities are Wilkes-Barre, Williamsport, Hazelton, Carbondale, and Pittston.

The pioneer Catholic settlers were principally of Irish and German descent, but in recent years the coal-mining industry has attracted numerous European labourers, mostly of the Slav and Italian races, until these now number almost one-half of the Catholic population.

Early History

Although many of the pioneer settlers were Catholic immigrants, yet the first official visit of a priest to this territory of which there is any authentic record was in 1787. In that year Rev. James Pellentz travelled up the Susquehanna River as far as Elmira, ministering to the Catholics scattered through this region. He returned to Baltimore, whence he had come, and reported conditions to his superiors. A few years after the visit of Father Pellentz the famous French settlement of Asylum or "Azilum" was founded (1793-94). The site chosen was on the banks of the Susquehanna River, opposite the present village of Standing-Stone, Bradford County. It seems to have been planned as a retreat for the nobility, who were forced to flee from the terrors of the French Revolution, and it was evidently intended that the queen herself should take refuge there. The most conspicuous building in the village, the "Queen's house" or "La grande maison", as it was generally called, was built and furnished for her special accommodation. These plans, however, miscarried, for before the house was completed the unfortunate queen had followed her husband to the guillotine. For ten years this unique settlement flourished. It was made up, as we are told, of "some of the nobility and gentlemen of the court of Louis XVI, several of the clergy, a few mechanics and a number of the labouring class". The village consisted of about fifty houses. At the close of the Revolution most of the prominent refugees at Asylum accepted the invitation of Napoleon and returned to France. In 1804 we find the settlement practically abandoned.

This settlement was evidently made up almost entirely of French Catholics, and among them a few priests. From a contemporary writer we learn that among the inhabitants of Asylum in 1795 was a certain "M. Carles, a priest and canon of Guernsey" and also a "M. Becdellierre, formerly a canon". Religious services in the settlement were conducted by Ezra Fromentin, "acting priest in the little log chapel" and M. Carles. We read also of a certain Abbé Colin, who, after the abandonment of the settlement, went to the West Indies as chaplain in the army. Mention is also made of a beautiful illuminated Missal used there in the religious services, and afterwards presented to the Vatican Museum. Today scarcely a trace of this unique and interesting settlement remains. The earliest permanent Catholic settlements were at Friendsville, and Silver Lake, Susquehanna County. These, as well as the other Catholic settlers scattered throughout this district, were attended occasionally by priests sent from Philadelphia. In 1825, largely through the solicitations of Mr. Patrick Griffin, father of Gerald Griffin, the Irish novelist, dramatist, and poet, then a resident of Susquehanna County, Bishop Kenrick, of Philadelphia, sent Rev. John O'Flynn as the first resident pastor. His work, however, was rather that of a missionary, as his field of labour comprised thirteen counties in morth-eastern Pennsylvania and five counties in New York State. The first church was built in 1825 near Silver Lake. Father O'Flynn died at Danville in 1829, and was succeeded by Father Clancy. On 1 Feb., 1836, Rev. Henry Fitzsimmons was sent to take charge of this territory, and took up his residence at Carbondale, where a church had been built in 1832, Silver Lake being attended from Carbondale as a mission. In 1838 Rev. John Vincent O'Reilly was sent by Bishop Kenrick to assist in administering to the Catholics of this extensive territory. He took up his residence at Silver Lake, and his charge comprised the Counties of Suspuehanna, Bradford, Tioga, Potter, and Sullivan in Pennsylvania, and the five adjoining counties in New York State. The early history of the diocese is intimately bound up with the truly heroic labours of Father O'Reilly, and foundations of many of the present parishes were the results of his missionary zeal. His fruitful career was brought to an untimely end at the railway station at Susquehanna, 4 Oct., 1873. He was killed while rescuing a friend from the path of an approaching train.

Bishops

Rt. Rev. William O'Hara, D.D., the first bishop, was born at Dungiven, County Derry, Ireland, 14 Apr., 1816, where his early education was received. His philosophical and theological studies were made at the urban College of the Propaganda, Rome, where he was ordained, 21 Dec., 1842. His first appointment was as assistant at St. Patrick's Church, Philadelphia. He was afterwards made rector and professor of moral theology at St. Charles's Seminary. In 1856 he was appointed pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Philadelphia. He was afterwards made rector and professor of moral theology at St. Charles's Seminary. In 1856 he was appointed pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Philadelphia, where he remained until his consecration as Bishop of Scranton, 12 July, 1868. The diocese then numbered 50 churches and 25 priests. He died on 3 Feb., 1899, and is buried under the main altar of the cathedral of Scranton.

Rt. Rev. Michael John Hoban, D.D., the second bishop, was born at Waterloo, New Jersey, 6 June, 1853. His early education was received at Hawley, Pennsylvania, whither his parents moved shortly after his birth. He afterwards attended St. Francis Xavier's College (New York), Holy Cross College (Worchester, Massachusetts), and St. John's College (Fordham). After one year at St. Charles's Seminary, Overbrook, he entered the American College, Rome in 1875, where he was ordained to the priesthood, 22 May, 1880. His first appointment was as assistant at Towanda. He afterwards laboured successively as assistant at Pittston and pastor at Troy. In 1887 he organized St. Leo's parish, Ashley, Pennsylvania, where the present beautiful church and rectory are monuments of his zeal. There he remained until his consecration as Bishop of Alalis and coadjutor Bishop of Scranton, 22 Mar., 1896. During his administration, since the death of Bishop O'Hara, he has enacted important legislation with regard to the internal affairs of the diocese, and under his inspiration the present beautiful and well-equipped St. Joseph's Infant Asylum, as also the Maloney Home for the Aged, have been added to the equipment of the diocese; the latter being the gift of the Marquess Martin J. Maloney of Philadelphia, in memory of his parents. Since the death of his predecessor, the diocese has grown from 152 priests, 121 churches, and a Catholic population of 135,000, to 265 priests, 232 churches, and a Catholic population of 265,000 (1911).

Catholic Education

Catholic education in the diocese began with, and received a great impetus from the great pioneer Father O'Reilly. In the autumn of 1842 he opened a college at St. Joseph's, Susquehanna County. From a very modest beginning, and under his immediate supervision, it grew and flourished; and in the twenty-two years of its existence educated two bishops and over a score of priests. It was destroyed by fire, 1 Jan, 1864, and was never rebuilt. At the present time higher education in the diocese is cared for by St. Thomas's College, in charge of the Brothers of the Christian Schools; The Latin and Greek courses being taught by two of the diocesan clergy. Mount St. Mary's Seminary, Scranton, conducted by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and St. Ann's Academy, Wilkes-Barre, conducted by the Sisters of Christian Charity, are both flourishing and rapidly growing boarding-schools for girls. St. Mary's parochial high school, Wilkes-Berre, conducted by the Sisters of Mercy, deserves mention as a model of equipment and efficiency. Nearly all of the larger parishes have their own parochial schools conducted by the sisters of the different teaching communities. Facilities for the preservation of the languages of the various nationalities are afforded in their parochial schools, which, for the most part, are conducted by sisters familiar with the mother-tongue. To meet this need two new teaching orders have recently been established; Sisters of Sts. Cyril and Methodius (Slovak) and Sisters of St. Casimir (Lithuanian). Both these orders had their inception in the novitiate at Mount St. Mary's, Scranton, where the first candidates were trained. The diocese now numbers 49 parochial schools and 14,440 pupils (1911).

Religious

Passionist Fathers, St. Ann's Monastery, Scranton; Theatine Fathers (Spanish); Stigmata Fathers (Italian); Brothers of the Christian Schools. Sister Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, mother-house and novitiate, Wilkes-Berre; Sisters of Christian Charity (German), mother-house and novitiate for the United States, Wilkes-Berre; Sisters of the Good Shepherd; Little Sisters of the Poor; Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth (Polish); Bernardine Sisters (Polish): Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart (Italian); Sisters of Sts. Cyril and Methodius (Slovak).

Statistics

Catholic population (U.S. religious census, 1906), 265,000, divided as follows: English-speaking, 133,000; Poles, 45,000; Italians, 21,000; Greek Ruthenians, 20,000; German, 16,000; Slovaks, 15,000; Lithuanians, 13,000; Magyars, 1,000; Syrians, 183; mission churches, 49; parochial schools, 49; pupils, 14,440; religious, 578; baptisms (1910), 12,725; orphan asylum, 1; infant asylum, 1; home for the aged poor, 1; house of the Good Shepherd, 1; hospital, 1; college, 1; value of Church property (1911), $5,4000,000.

Official Catholic Directory; Shea, Life and Times of the Most Rev. John Carroll (New York, 1888); Bradsby, History of the Luzerne County (Chicago, 1893); Kerlin, Catholicity in Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1909); La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, voyage dans les Etats-unis d' Amérique (Paris, 1799-1800); Murray, The Story of Some French Fefugees and Their "Azilum" (Athens, 1903).

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  43. Back to citation "University of Scranton stripping Scranton bishops' names from buildings", from The Scranton Times-Tribune
  44. Back to citation Diocese of Scranton, official website

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