List of schools of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre.
As of 2019, there were nine Catholic schools on Long Island with high school divisions.
In the 2000-2001 school year the archdiocese had 28,709 students at the elementary level. By the 2010-2011 school year this was 19,261, a decline of 34%. [1] Six Catholic elementary schools closed in 2012, with 47 remaining. [2] Both seminaries located in the Diocese of Rockville Centre, have been closed down mainly due to the declining numbers of priestly vocations. The Diocese of Rockville Centre currently has no active seminaries within its territory and currently uses the seminary facilities of the Diocese of Brooklyn and the Archdiocese of New York for its seminarians.
The Diocese of Brooklyn is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the U.S. state of New York. It is headquartered in Brooklyn and its territory encompasses the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. The Diocese of Brooklyn is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of New York. The diocesan cathedral is the Cathedral Basilica of St. James in Downtown Brooklyn and its co-cathedral is the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Prospect Heights. The current Bishop of Brooklyn is Robert J. Brennan.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church that comprises the territory of Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island in the U.S. state of New York, except for Fishers Island, which is part of Suffolk County but is included in the Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut. Founded in 1957, this diocese was created from territory that once belonged to the Diocese of Brooklyn.
Walter Philip Kellenberg was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Ogdensburg in Northern New York (1954–1957) and bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre in New York (1957–1976).
James Thomas McHugh was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who had been Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York, for less than a year when he died. He was Bishop of Camden, New Jersey, from 1989 to 1998 and Bishop Coadjutor of Rockville Centre from 1998 to 2000.
William Francis Murphy is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York, from 2001 to 2016 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts from 1995 to 2001.
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