We serve over 2.8 million Catholics comprising the Boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island of the City of New York and the Counties of Dutchess, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester in the State of New York. On April 8, 1808, the Holy See raised Baltimore, the first diocese in the United States, to the status of an Archdiocese. At the time of its establishment, t
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