Catholic Church Leadership

Bishop Ronald Hicks was installed as the 11th Archbishop of New York at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, at 2 p.m., in a ceremony that included the traditional door‑knocking, a reception by Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Hicks holding up his papal appointment letter. Hicks framed his agenda as building a "missionary church, not a country club" that reaches the peripheries, passes the faith to younger generations and seeks areas of common good with civic leaders, and he has been described as a "Leo‑style" bishop aligned with the posture of the new American pope on issues such as immigration.