Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston

Latin Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the U.S.

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Boston

Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Bostoniensis

Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston, 2007

Coat of arms

Location
Country|  United States
Territory| Essex County, Middlesex County, Norfolk County, Suffolk County, and also Plymouth County except the towns of Marion, Mattapoisett, and Wareham[1]
Ecclesiastical province| Boston
Coordinates| 42°12′47″N 71°02′29″W﻿ / ﻿42.21306°N 71.04139°W﻿ / 42.21306; -71.04139
Statistics
Area| 6,386 km2 (2,466 sq mi)[2]
Population
- Total
- Catholics| (as of 2021[2])
4,420,879
1,989,396 (45%)
Parishes| 266[2]
Information
Denomination| Catholic Church
Sui iuris church| Latin Church
Rite| Roman Rite
Established| April 8, 1808; 216 years ago (1808-04-08)
Cathedral| Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Patron saint| Saint Patrick
Secular priests| 952 (600 diocesan; 352 religious)[2]
Current leadership
Pope| Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop| Richard Garth Henning
Auxiliary Bishops|

* Robert Francis Hennessey
* Mark William O'Connell
* Robert P. Reed
* Peter J. Uglietto
* Cristiano Borro Barbosa

Vicar General| Mark William O'Connell
Bishops emeritus|

* Seán Patrick O'Malley
* John Anthony Dooher
* Arthur Kennedy

Map
Website
bostoncatholic.org

The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Boston (Latin: Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Bostoniensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in eastern Massachusetts in the United States. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. The archdiocese is the fourth largest in the United States.[3]

It was formed in 1808, branching off from the Diocese of Baltimore and growing rapidly during the 19th century. Starting in 2002 the archdiocese faced a sexual abuse scandal which touched off investigations of Catholic Church sexual abuse cases throughout the United States.

Richard G. Henning has served as archbishop since October 31, 2024.

## Territory

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The Archdiocese of Boston encompasses Essex County, Middlesex County, Norfolk County, and Suffolk County in Massachusetts. It includes most of Plymouth County except for the towns of Marion, Mattapoisett, and Wareham.

As of 2018, the archdiocese had 284 parishes with 617 diocesan priests and 275 permanent deacons. In 2018, the archdiocese estimated that more than 1.9 million Catholics lived within its territory.[2]

## History

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### Early history

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New England's first settlers were Congregationalists and, in Rhode Island, Baptists. Many of them left England because they were disappointed in the lack of reforms in the Church of England. These dissenters followed Martin Luther and John Calvin in rejecting the selling of indulgences, the celebration of a Latin Mass, the doctrine of transubstantiation, and papal authority.[4]

As these dissenters set up colonies in New England, they enacted legal restrictions on Catholics, including bans on Catholic worship. Massachusetts made it a crime, with a potential life sentence, for a Catholic priest to reside in the colony.[4]

The political necessity of gaining Catholic support for the American Revolutionary War drove a change in popular attitudes in the colonies. The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, written by John Adams and ratified in 1780, established religious freedom in the new state.[4] With the Massachusetts constitution being the first state constitution in the United States, its framework of government became a model for the constitutions of other states and, eventually, for the federal constitution.

In 1788, the Abbé de la Poterie, a former French naval chaplain serving in Boston, celebrated the city's first public mass in a converted Huguenot chapel at 24 School Street in Boston, which he named Holy Cross Church. Two refugees from the French Revolution ministering to Boston's Catholic population at the turn of the century, Reverends Francis Anthony Matignon and John Cheverus, raised the funds to build a larger building, the Church of the Holy Cross. These buildings no longer exist, but they were the foundation of the Catholic Church in Massachusetts.[5]

### Formation

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Bishop Cheverus

Pope Pius VII erected the Diocese of Boston on April 8, 1808, taking all of New England from the Diocese of Baltimore. The new diocese consisted of the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts (including present-day Maine), New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.[6] The pope named Cheverus as the first bishop of Boston.[7]

The exponential growth of the Catholic Church in New England through the nineteenth century led the Vatican to create new dioceses out of the Diocese of Boston and later the Archdiocese of Boston.

Dioceses created out of the Diocese and the Archdiocese of Boston  Date of diocese  | Diocese name  | Territory taken from Diocese and Archdiocese of Boston

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1843  | Diocese of Hartford | Connecticut, Rhode Island and counties in southeastern Massachusetts[1]
1853  | Diocese of Burlington | Vermont.[1]
1853  | Diocese of Portland | Maine and New Hampshire .[1]
1870  | Diocese of Springfield | Counties in western and central Massachusetts[8]

### Diocesan offices

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In the 1920s, Cardinal William O'Connell moved the chancery from offices near Holy Cross Cathedral in the South End to 127 Lake Street in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston.[9] "Lake Street" was a metonym for the bishop and the office of the archdiocese.[9]

In June 2004, the archdiocese sold the archbishop's residence and the chancery and surrounding lands in Brighton to Boston College, in part to defray costs associated with numerous cases of sexual abuse by clergy of the archdiocese.[10] The archdiocesan offices of the archdiocese moved to Braintree. The archdiocesan seminary, Saint John's Seminary, remains on the property in Brighton.[11]

### Clergy sexual abuse scandals and settlements

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Cardinal Law

Main article: Sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston

At the beginning of the 21st century the archdiocese was shaken by accusations of sexual abuse by clergy that culminated in the resignation of its archbishop, Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, on December 13, 2002. In September 2003, the archdiocese settled over 500 abuse-related claims for $85 million.[12] Victims received an average of $92,000 each and the perpetrators included 140 priests and two others.[13]

Additional sex abuse allegations within the Archdiocese of Boston surfaced in later years as well. This included alleged abuse at Saint John's Seminary and Arlington Catholic High School.[14][15][16]

The Archdiocese of Boston lobbies against laws intended to help survivors of abuse, such as a proposed 2023 law to remove the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse lawsuits.[17] From 2011 and 2019 the Catholic church in Massachusetts spent over half a million dollars lobbying against such laws.[18]

## Coat of arms

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The coat of arms of the archdiocese, shown in the information box to the right at the top of this article, has a blue shield with a gold cross and a gold "trimount" over a silver and blue "Barry-wavy" at the base of the shield. The "trimount" of three coupreaux represents the City of Boston, the original name of which was Trimountaine in reference to the three hills on which the city's original settlement stood. The cross, fleurettée, honors the Cathedral of the Holy Cross while also serving as a reminder that the first bishop of Boston and other early ecclesiastics were natives of France. The "Barry-wavy" is a symbol of the sea, alluding to Boston's role as a major seaport whose first non-indigenous settlers came from across the sea.[19]

## Communications media

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The diocesan newspaper The Pilot has been published in Boston since 1829.

The archdiocese's Catholic Television Center, founded in 1955, produces programs and operates the cable television network CatholicTV. From 1964 to 1966, it owned and operated a broadcast television station under the call letters WIHS-TV.

## Ecclesiastical province

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Ecclesiastical Province of Boston

Further information: List of Catholic bishops of the United States

The Archdiocese of Boston is also metropolitan see for the Ecclesiastical province of Boston. This means that the archbishop of Boston is the metropolitan for the province. The suffragan dioceses in the province are the Diocese of Burlington, Diocese of Fall River, Diocese of Manchester, Diocese of Portland, Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts, and the Diocese of Worcester.

## Pastoral regions

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The Archdiocese of Boston is divided into five pastoral regions, each headed by an episcopal vicar.

Pastoral regions of the Archdiocese of Boston  Pastoral region  | Episcopal vicar  | Territory  | Parishes  | Higher education  | High schools  | Primary schools  | Cemeteries

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Central  | Cristiano B. Barbosa | Boston

Brookline Cambridge Somerville Winthrop

| 64  |

* Boston College
* Emmanuel College
* St. John's Seminary

| 6  | 29  | 8
Merrimack  | Robert F. Hennessey | N. Essex County N. Middlesex Co. | 49  | Merrimack College | 3  | (TBD)  | 4
North  | Brian McHugh  | S. Essex Co. E. Middlesex Co. | 64  | none  | 4  | 6 (?)  | 11
South  | Robert Connors (Temporary)  | Plymouth Co.

E. Norfolk Co.

| 59  | Labouré College | 3  | (TBD)  | 3
West  | Robert P. Reed | S. Middlesex Co.W. Norfolk Co. | 67  | Regis College | 3  | 11  | 7

## Bishops

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Cardinal O'Malley, Archbishop Emeritus of Boston

### Bishops of Boston

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1. Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus (1808–1823) appointed Bishop of Montauban and later Archbishop of Bordeaux (elevated to Cardinal in 1836)
2. Benedict Joseph Fenwick (1825–1846)
3. John Bernard Fitzpatrick (1846–1866; coadjutor bishop 1843–1846)
4. John Joseph Williams (1866–1875; coadjutor bishop 1866); elevated to Archbishop

### Archbishops of Boston

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1. John Joseph Williams (1875–1907)
2. William Henry O'Connell (1907–1944)
3. Richard James Cushing (1944–1970)
4. Humberto Sousa Medeiros (1970–1983)
5. Bernard Francis Law (1984–2002), resigned; later appointed Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
6. Seán Patrick O'Malley (2003–2024)[a]
7. Richard Henning (2024–present)

### Current auxiliary bishops of Boston

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* Robert Francis Hennessey (2006–present)
* Peter John Uglietto (2010–present)
* Mark William O'Connell (2016–present)
* Robert P. Reed (2016–present)
* Cristiano Borro Barbosa (2024–present)

### Former auxiliary bishops of Boston

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* John Brady (1891–1910)
* Joseph Gaudentius Anderson (1909–1927)
* John Bertram Peterson (1927–1932), appointed Bishop of Manchester
* Francis Spellman (1932–1939), appointed Archbishop of New York (Cardinal in 1946)
* Richard J. Cushing (1939–1944), appointed Archbishop here (Cardinal in 1958)
* Louis Francis Kelleher (1945–1946)
* John Wright (1947–1950), appointed Bishop of Worcester, then Bishop of Pittsburgh, then Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy (elevated to Cardinal in 1969)
* Thomas Francis Markham (1950–1952)
* Eric Francis MacKenzie (1950–1969)
* Jeremiah Francis Minihan (1954–1973)
* Thomas Joseph Riley (1959–1976)
* Daniel A. Cronin (1968–1970), appointed Bishop of Fall River and later Archbishop of Hartford
* Joseph Francis Maguire (1971–1976), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts and subsequently succeeded to that see
* Lawrence Joseph Riley (1971–1990)
* Joseph John Ruocco (1974–1980)
* Thomas Vose Daily (1974–1984), appointed Bishop of Palm Beach and later Bishop of Brooklyn
* John Joseph Mulcahy (1974–1992)
* John Michael D'Arcy (1975–1985), appointed Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend
* Daniel Anthony Hart (1976–1995), appointed Bishop of Norwich
* Alfred C. Hughes (1981–1993), appointed Bishop of Baton Rouge and later Archbishop of New Orleans
* Robert J. Banks (1985–1990), appointed Bishop of Green Bay
* Roberto Octavio González Nieves (1988–1995), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Corpus Christi and subsequently succeeded to that see, and later Archbishop of San Juan in Puerto Rico
* John R. McNamara (1992–1999)
* John P. Boles (1992–2006)
* John Brendan McCormack (1995–1998), appointed Bishop of Manchester
* William F. Murphy (1995–2001), appointed Bishop of Rockville Centre
* Francis Xavier Irwin (1996–2009)
* Emilio S. Allué (1996–2010)
* Richard Joseph Malone (2000–2004), appointed Bishop of Portland and later Bishop of Buffalo
* Richard Lennon (2001–2006), appointed Bishop of Cleveland
* Walter James Edyvean (2001–2014)
* John Anthony Dooher (2006–2018)
* Arthur L. Kennedy (2010–2017)
* Robert P. Deeley (2012–2013), appointed Bishop of Portland

### Other archdiocesan priests who became bishops

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* William Barber Tyler, appointed Bishop of Hartford in 1843
* Patrick Thomas O'Reilly, appointed Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts in 1870
* James Augustine Healy, appointed Bishop of Portland in 1875
* Lawrence Stephen McMahon (priest here, 1860–1872), appointed Bishop of Hartford in 1879
* Matthew Harkins, appointed Bishop of Providence in 1887
* Edward Patrick Allen, appointed Bishop of Mobile in 1897
* Louis Sebastian Walsh, appointed Bishop of Portland in 1906
* John Joseph Nilan, appointed Bishop of Hartford in 1910
* James Anthony Walsh, elected Superior General of Maryknoll and consecrated Titular Bishop in 1933
* Edward Francis Ryan, appointed Bishop of Burlington in 1944
* John Joseph Glynn, appointed Auxiliary Bishop for the Military Services, USA in 1991
* Richard Joseph Malone, appointed Bishop of Portland in 2002 and later Bishop of Buffalo[21] in 2012
* Christopher J. Coyne, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Indianapolis in 2011 and later Bishop of Burlington and Coadjutor Archbishop of Hartford in 2023 and succeeded to Archbishop of Hartford in 2024
* Paul Fitzpatrick Russell,[22] appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Turkey and Turkmenistan and Titular Archbishop in 2016

## Churches

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Main article: List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston

## Seminaries

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* Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary, Weston
* St. John's Seminary, Brighton
* Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary, Brookline

## Education

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As of 2018, the archdiocese had 112 schools with approximately 34,000 students in pre-kindergarten through high school.[23][24]

In 1993 the archdiocese had 53,569 students in 195 archdiocesan parochial schools. Boston had the largest number of parochial schools: 48 schools with a combined total of about 16,000 students.[25]

### Superintendents

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* Albert W. Low (1961–1972)[26]
* Bartholomew Varden (1972–1975)[26][27]
* Eugene F. Sullivan (1978–1984)[28][29]
* Kathleen Carr (1990–2006)[30]
* Mary Grassa O'Neill (2008–2014)[31]
* Mary E. Moran (2013–2014)[31]
* Kathleen Powers Mears (2014–2019)[23][31]
* Thomas W. Carroll (2019–present)[32]

### Colleges and universities

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* Boston College, Chestnut Hill
* Emmanuel College, Boston
* Merrimack College, North Andover
* Regis College, Weston

### Former colleges

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* Marian Court College, Swampscott

### Primary and secondary schools

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See also: List of schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston

High Schools of the Archdiocese of Boston  School  | Location  | Affiliation with religious order or independent  | Founded

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Academy of Notre Dame | Tyngsboro | Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur | 1854
Archbishop Williams High School | Braintree | Independent  | 1949
Arlington Catholic High School | Arlington | Independent  | 1960
Austin Preparatory School | Reading | Independent  | 1961
Bishop Fenwick High School | Peabody | Independent  | 1958
Boston College High School | Dorchester | Society of Jesus | 1863
Cardinal Spellman High School | Brockton | Independent  | 1958
Cathedral High School | South End | Independent  | 1926
Catholic Memorial School | West Roxbury | Congregation of Christian Brothers | 1957
Central Catholic High School | Lawrence | Marist Brothers | 1935
Dorchester  | Independent  |  | 2010
Fontbonne, The Early College of Boston | Milton | Sisters of St. Joseph | 1954
Lowell Catholic High School | Lowell | Xaverian Brothers | 1989
Malden Catholic High School | Malden | Xaverian Brothers | 1968
Newton Country Day School | Newton | Society of the Sacred Heart | 1880
Notre Dame Academy | Hingham | Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur | 1853
Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School | Lawrence | Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur | 2004
Sacred Heart High School | Kingston | Congregation of Divine Providence | 1947
Saint Joseph Preparatory High School | Brighton | Sisters of St. Joseph | 2012
Saint Sebastian's School | Needham | Independent  | 1941
St. John's Preparatory School | Danvers | Xaverian Brothers | 1907
St. Mary's High School |  Lynn | Independent  | 1881
Ursuline Academy | Dedham |  Ursuline Sisters | 1819
Xaverian Brothers High School | Westwood | Xaverian Brothers | 1963
Former high schools of the Archdiocese of Boston  School  | Location  | Religious order  | Opened  | Closed

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Matignon High School | Cambridge |  | 1945  | 2023
Academy of the Assumption  | Wellesley | Sisters of Charity | 1893  |
Academy of Notre Dame  | Boston, Massachusetts |  |  |
Blessed Sacrament High School  | Jamaica Plain |  |  |
Boys' Catholic High School | Malden | Xaverian Brothers | 1936  | 1968
Cardinal Cushing High School  | South Boston |  |  |
Cheverus High School  | Malden |  | 1908  |
Christopher Columbus High School  | North End | Franciscan Friars | 1945  | 1990
Don Bosco Technical High School | Chinatown | Salesians of Don Bosco | 1998  | 1998
Elizabeth Seton Academy | Boston, Massachusetts |  |  | 2003
Girls' Catholic High School | Malden |  |  | 1992
Holy Trinity High School  | Roxbury |  |  | 1966
Hudson Catholic High School | Hudson, Massachusetts |  | 1959  | 2009
Keith Academy | Lowell |  |  | 1989
Keith Hall  | Lowell |  |  | 1989
Marian High School | Framingham | Sisters of St. Joseph | 1956  | 2018
Mission Church High School  | Mission Hill-Roxbury |  | 1926  | 1992
Monsignor Ryan High School  | South Boston |  |  | 2000
Mount Alvernia High School | Newton |  | 1935  | 2023
Mount Saint Joseph Academy | Brighton | Sisters of St. Joseph | 1884  | 2012
Nazareth High School  | South Boston |  |  |
North Cambridge Catholic High School | North Cambridge |  | 1951  | 2010
Notre Dame Academy | Hingham | Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur | 1854  | 1954
Pope John XXIII High School | Everett |  | 1965  | 2019
Presentation of Mary Academy | Methuen | Sisters of the Presentation of Mary | 1958  | 2020
Saint Joseph Preparatory High School | Brighton |  | 2012  | 2023
St. Anne's School  | Arlington |  |  |
St. Augustine High School  | South Boston |  |  |
St. Bernard High School  | Newton |  |  |
St. Clare High School  | Roslindale |  |  | 2000
St. Clement High School | Medford | Sisters of St. Joseph | 1925  | 2017
St. Columbkille High School  | Brighton |  |  |
St. John the Evangelist High School | Cambridge |  | 1921  | 1951
St. Joseph Academy  | Roxbury |  |  |
St. Joseph's High School for Girls  | Lowell |  |  | 1989
St. Louis Academy  | Lowell |  |  | 1989
St. Patrick High School  | Lowell |  |  | 1989
St. Patrick High School  | Roxbury |  |  |
St. Peter's High School  | Cambridge |  |  |
St. Thomas Aquinas High School  | Jamaica Plain |  | 1927  | 1975
Savio Preparatory High School | East Boston | Salesians of Don Bosco | 1958  | 2007
Trinity Catholic High School | Newton |  | 1894  | 2012
Our Lady of Nazareth Academy | Wakefield | Sisters of Charity of Nazareth | 1947  | 2009

## Other facilities

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The archdiocese previously used a headquarters facility in Brighton but sold it to Boston College in 2004 for $107,400,000.[33]

Steward Health Care System operates the former archdiocesan hospitals of Caritas Christi Health Care.

## Notes

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1. ^ Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley, OFM Cap., on August 5, 2024, and appointed Bishop Richard G. Henning of Providence, as his successor.[20] Henning was installed on October 31, 2024.

## References

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20. ^ "Pope Francis Accepts Resignation of Cardinal Seán O'Malley, OFM Cap., of the Archdiocese of Boston; Appoints Bishop Richard Henning as Successor | USCCB". www.usccb.org. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
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33. ^ Paulson, Michael (2004-04-21). "Diocesan headquarters sold to BC". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2020-06-27.

## External links

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* Official website
* Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Official Site (rcab.org) at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
* Catholic Hierarchy Profile of the Archdiocese of Boston
* Boston Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church
* Boston Catholic Insider (critical blog)
* Boston Catholic Schools

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Ordinaries|

Bishops
Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus
Benedict Joseph Fenwick
John Bernard Fitzpatrick

Archbishops
John Joseph Williams
William Henry O'Connell
Richard Cushing
Humberto Sousa Medeiros
Bernard Francis Law
Seán Patrick O'Malley
Richard Henning

Auxiliary bishops
Cristiano Borro Barbosa
Robert Francis Hennessey
Mark William O'Connell
Robert Philip Reed
Peter J. Uglietto

Emeriti bishops
John Anthony Dooher
Arthur L. Kennedy

Deceased
Joseph Gaudentius Anderson
Thomas Francis Markham
Emilio S. Allué
Francis Xavier Irwin
Walter James Edyvean

Churches|

List
List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston

Cathedral
Cathedral of the Holy Cross

Basilicas and shrines
Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Boston
St. Anthony Shrine, Boston
St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine, Boston
Our Lady of Good Voyage, the Seaport Shrine

Parishes
Holy Name, West Roxbury
Holy Trinity, Lowell
Our Lady of Czestochowa, Boston
Our Lady of Good Voyage, Gloucester
Our Lady Help of Christians, Newton
Sacred Heart, Cambridge
St. Albert the Great, Weymouth
St. Charles Borromeo, Waltham
St. John the Baptist, Salem
St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge
St. Joseph, Boston
St. Leonard, Boston
St. Mary, Dedham (History)
St. Mary, Milton
St. Mary, Newton
St. Mary, Waltham
St. Mary, Winchester
St. Mary - St. Catherine of Siena, Charlestown
St. Paul, Cambridge
St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr, Chelsea
St. Susanna, Dedham

Former parishes
Holy Cross, Boston
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, East Boston
St. Aidan, Brookline
St. Catherine of Sienna, Charlestown
St. Joseph, Roxbury
St. Mary, Charlestown
St. Stephen, Boston

Education|

Seminaries
Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary
St. John's Seminary

Colleges
Boston College
Emmanuel College
Labouré College
Merrimack College
Regis College
St. John's Seminary

Closed
Marian Court College

High schools
Academy of Notre Dame, Tyngsboro
Arlington Catholic High School, Arlington
Austin Preparatory School, Reading
Bishop Fenwick High School, Peabody
Boston College High School, Dorchester
Cathedral High School, Boston
Catholic Memorial School, West Roxbury
Central Catholic High School, Lawrence
Cristo Rey Boston High School, Dorchester
Fontbonne Academy, Milton
Lowell Catholic High School, Lowell
Malden Catholic High School, Malden
Newton Country Day School, Newton
Notre Dame Academy, Hingham
Notre Dame High School, Lawrence
St. John's Preparatory School, Danvers
St. Mary's High School, Lynn
Saint Sebastian's School, Needham
Ursuline Academy, Dedham
Xaverian Brothers High School, Westwood

Closed
Cambridge Matignon School, Cambridge
Don Bosco Technical High School, Boston
Elizabeth Seton Academy, Boston
Hudson Catholic High School, Hudson
Marian High School, Framingham
Mount Alvernia High School, Newton
Nazareth Academy, Wakefield
Our Lady of Nazareth Academy, Wakefield
Pope John XXIII High School, Everett
Presentation of Mary Academy, Methuen
Sacred Heart High School, Kingston
Saint Clement High School, Medford
Saint Joseph Preparatory High School, Boston
St. Dominic Savio Preparatory High School, Boston
Trinity Catholic High School, Newton

Former
Archbishop Williams High School, Braintree
Cardinal Spellman High School, Brockton

Priests|

John P. Brennan
Charles A. Finn
Gerald Fitzgerald
John Geoghan
George Kerr
Philip King
Mimie Pitaro
Patrick O'Beirne
Dennis J. O'Donovan
Paul Fitzpatrick Russell
Paul Shanley
Henry A. Walsh

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