News Releases

Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger will celebrate Midnight Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Christmas Eve, beginning with a musical prelude at 11:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 24.

Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger has accepted the resignation of Mary DeTurris Poust, diocesan director of communications, effective Jan. 28, 2022. Ms. DeTurris Poust has served in the role since September 2015, after initially being brought on six months earlier to create and maintain a social media presence for the bishop and the 14-county diocese. A search is underway for her replacement.

We have received word that some people in our parishes are receiving scam emails that appear to be from Bishop Scharfenberger and seek donations.

In a move designed to strengthen the future of Catholic education in the Capital Region, the Albany Diocesan School Board (ADSB), under the leadership of Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger, today announced it will create a new school in Latham that will allow for a continuum of Catholic education from pre-K to 12th grade in one location. The new Catholic Central School is set to open its doors in September 2022.

Father Jerome R. Gingras, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church, Glenville; Our Lady of Grace, Ballston Lake, and St. Joseph’s, Scotia, died suddenly today. He was 71.

Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger will celebrate the annual White Mass for Health Care Workers on Saturday, Oct. 2, at 4 p.m. in the Coliseum church at the Our Lady of Martyr’s Shrine in Auriesville.

Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger has asked the independent Diocesan Review Board to offer advisement on the following clergy, each of whom has an allegation of child sexual abuse filed against him through the Child Victims Act.

Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger has asked parishes of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany to take up a special collection to support those people devastated by the recent earthquake and storm in Haiti.