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The Installation of Archbishop Dolan - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
" Updated, 2:59 p.m. | Timothy M. Dolan was formally installed at 2:34 p.m. Wednesday as the 13th Roman Catholic bishop (and 10th archbishop) of New York, in a solemn but joyful Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral that was filled by clergy members, parishioners and leaders of the city’s political and business elites.
The cathedral burst into applause as Msgr. William Belford, the chancellor of the archdiocese, notarized the Feb. 23 apostolic letter appointing Archbishop Dolan, who had been the archbishop of Milwaukee since 2002. Looking characteristically jolly, the newly installed spiritual leader of New York’s 2.5 million Catholics proceeded to embrace and kiss a series of prelates, clergy members and lay people from various communities and congregations, who lined up to congratulate him and, in some cases, present gifts.
Gov. David A. Paterson, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten E. Gillibrand were seated together in a front-row pew, at the helm of an audience of several thousand worshipers and onlookers, Catholic and non-Catholic alike.
The Start of the Mass
After a grand procession into the cathedral — culminating in the Easter hymn “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today,” arranged by John Ferguson — Cardinal Edward M. Egan, New York’s archbishop since 2000, began the Mass at 2:18 p.m.
Cardinal Egan reminded the congregation that Pope Benedict XVI had celebrated Mass at the cathedral last year. As then, the archdiocese celebrates the appointment of a new archbishop “with great joy and with genuine delight,” Cardinal Egan said.
Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the apostolic nuncio or papal ambassador to the United States, read a text praising the cathedral, the New York archdiocese and its “new shepherd.”
" Updated, 2:59 p.m. | Timothy M. Dolan was formally installed at 2:34 p.m. Wednesday as the 13th Roman Catholic bishop (and 10th archbishop) of New York, in a solemn but joyful Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral that was filled by clergy members, parishioners and leaders of the city’s political and business elites.
The cathedral burst into applause as Msgr. William Belford, the chancellor of the archdiocese, notarized the Feb. 23 apostolic letter appointing Archbishop Dolan, who had been the archbishop of Milwaukee since 2002. Looking characteristically jolly, the newly installed spiritual leader of New York’s 2.5 million Catholics proceeded to embrace and kiss a series of prelates, clergy members and lay people from various communities and congregations, who lined up to congratulate him and, in some cases, present gifts.
Gov. David A. Paterson, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten E. Gillibrand were seated together in a front-row pew, at the helm of an audience of several thousand worshipers and onlookers, Catholic and non-Catholic alike.
The Start of the Mass
After a grand procession into the cathedral — culminating in the Easter hymn “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today,” arranged by John Ferguson — Cardinal Edward M. Egan, New York’s archbishop since 2000, began the Mass at 2:18 p.m.
Cardinal Egan reminded the congregation that Pope Benedict XVI had celebrated Mass at the cathedral last year. As then, the archdiocese celebrates the appointment of a new archbishop “with great joy and with genuine delight,” Cardinal Egan said.
Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the apostolic nuncio or papal ambassador to the United States, read a text praising the cathedral, the New York archdiocese and its “new shepherd.”
