The Archdiocese of New York is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in the State of New York. It encompasses the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island in New York City and the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester to the north of the city. It does not include the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn or Queens, which are part of the Diocese of Brooklyn; however, the Diocese of Brooklyn is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of New York.
Francis Joseph Spellman was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of New York from 1939 until his death in 1967. From 1932 to 1939, Spellman served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston. He was created a cardinal by Pius XII in 1946.
Archbishop Molloy High School is a co-educational, college preparatory, Catholic school for grades 9–12, located on 6 acres (24,000 m2) on 83-53 Manton Street, Briarwood, Queens, New York. It is part of the Diocese of Brooklyn.
La Salle Academy is an American private, Catholic all-boys' high school in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York.
Proper name Saint Francis Preparatory School, commonly referred to as St. Francis Prepararory School or St. Francis Prep., is a private, independent Catholic college preparatory school in Fresh Meadows, Queens, New York City, New York. It is the largest non-diocesan Catholic high school in the United States. St. Francis is run by the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn, who maintain a residence on the top floor of the school. As of the 2015–16 school year, enrollment at St. Francis was 2,489.
Cardinal O'Hara High School is a coeducational Catholic high school of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The school is named after John Francis O'Hara who was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia from 1951 to 1960. It is located in Marple Township, Pennsylvania, and was officially opened for the first time in 1963.
Ralph Milton Beard Jr. was an American collegiate and professional basketball player. He won two NCAA national basketball championships at the University of Kentucky and played two years in the National Basketball Association prior to being barred for life for his participation in the 1951 point shaving scandal.
Cardinal Spellman High School is an American Catholic high school in the borough of the Bronx in New York City, New York. The school is chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York and is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. It is named after Cardinal Francis Spellman, the sixth archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York.
Albertus Magnus High School, also known as AMHS, Albertus, and Magnus, is an American Catholic, co-educational high school located in Bardonia, New York, named after the German philosopher and theologian of the same name. It is the only Catholic high school in Rockland County, New York.
Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in St. Louis, Missouri. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis.
Archbishop Stepinac High School is an American all-boys' Roman Catholic high school in White Plains, New York.
Edwin Bernard Broderick was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Albany from 1969 to 1976.
Regis Francis Xavier Philbin was an American television presenter, comedian, actor, and singer. Once called "the hardest-working man in show business", he held the Guinness World Record for the most hours spent on US television.
Thomas Andrew Donnellan was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Ogdensburg in New York from 1964 to 1968, and as the second archbishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta in Georgia from 1968 until his death.
Philip J. Furlong was a Catholic bishop, serving as Auxiliary Bishop of the United States Military Vicariate from 1956 to 1971.
John Joseph Maguire was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop and as coadjutor archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York.
Robert Joseph Chlupsa was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. Chlupsa played for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1970 and 1971.
Robert Anthony Brucato was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York from 1997 to 2006.
John Francis Good was an American agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who created the Abscam sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Abscam led to the arrest and conviction of several elected officials at the local, state, and federal level, including Mayor of Camden, New Jersey Angelo Errichetti and U.S. Senator Harrison A. Williams, using a fictional Arab sheikh seeking political favors as bait. The Abscam story was portrayed in the 2013 film American Hustle; in the movie, Bradley Cooper portrayed a composite character that was based on Good and two other FBI agents who worked on the case during the two-year-long operation.
Omari Rasulala Spellman is an American-Lebanese professional basketball player who last played for Zenit Saint Petersburg of the Russian VTB United League. He played college basketball for the Villanova Wildcats, winning a national championship in 2018. Spellman was drafted 30th overall by the Atlanta Hawks in the 2018 NBA draft.
