Leo, the first U.S. pope, appointed a relatively unknown cleric from Illinois, Bishop Ronald Hicks, to replace Dolan as leader of the nation's second-largest Catholic diocese, home to some 2.8 million ...

Pope Leo XIV has made another high-profile appointment that signals a generational shift in the English-speaking Catholic hierarchy.

Pope Leo XIV has appointed the Rev. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, a native of the Dominican Republic, to succeed Bishop Gerald Barbarito.

For 28 years, the Diocese of Palm Beach, Florida, has been led by a bishop with either past or eventual ties to the Diocese ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Ronald Hicks of the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, as the next archbishop of New York, the ...

Archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan's resignation - his successor - were formally announced on Thursday by Church officials.

Ronald Hicks, the current bishop of Joliet, Illinois, is set to take over leadership of New York City’s more than 2 million Roman Catholics in February.

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday made his most important U.S. appointment to date, naming a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop ...

Pope Leo XIV named Thursday a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York to lead one of the biggest U.S.

Pope Leo appointed a relatively unknown cleric from Illinois, Bishop Ronald Hicks, to replace Dolan as leader of the nation's ...

JOLIET, Ill. (WLS) -- Pope Leo has named Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet to lead the New York Archdiocese. Parishioners ABC7 ...