33 Facts About Timothy Dolan

Timothy Dolan is the tenth and current Archbishop of New York, having been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.

Timothy Dolan served as the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops from 2010 to 2013 and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2012.

Timothy Dolan previously served as Rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome from 1994 to 2001, an Auxiliary Bishop of St Louis from 2001 to 2002, and Archbishop of Milwaukee from 2002 to 2009.

Timothy Dolan's father was an aircraft engineer, working as a floor supervisor at McDonnell Douglas.

Timothy Dolan has two brothers, one of whom, Bob, is a former radio talk-show host, and two sisters.

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Timothy Dolan entered Saint Louis Preparatory Seminary in Shrewsbury, Missouri, in 1964.

Timothy Dolan later obtained a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from Cardinal Glennon College.

Timothy Dolan was sent by Cardinal John Carberry to attend the Pontifical North American College in Rome.

Timothy Dolan earned the degree of Licentiate of Sacred Theology in 1976 from the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas in Rome.

Timothy Dolan then served as an associate pastor at Cure of Ars in Shrewsbury and Immacolata Roman Catholic Parish in Richmond Heights until 1979.

Timothy Dolan's thesis centered on Bishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara of Kansas City, and was eventually published in book form.

Timothy Dolan was an adjunct professor of theology at St Louis University.

From 1994 until June 2001, Timothy Dolan held the office of rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome.

Timothy Dolan was granted the title of Monsignor by Pope John Paul II in 1994.

Timothy Dolan took a special interest in priests and vocations, and the number of seminary enrollments rose during his tenure.

Timothy Dolan succeeded Cardinal Edward Egan, who reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 in 2007.

Timothy Dolan pledged to challenge anti-Catholic sentiment, especially claims that the Church is unenlightened because it opposes same-sex marriage and abortion.

Timothy Dolan wore the pectoral cross used by his 19th-century predecessor John Hughes.

Ultimately, Timothy Dolan announced that dozens of under-utilized schools and parishes would close or merge with others in their neighborhoods, due to decades-long trends of shifting populations, increasing expenses, declining attendance, and decreasing clergy.

Timothy Dolan was part of a team that included Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, archbishop emeritus of Westminster; Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley of Boston; Toronto's Archbishop Thomas Christopher Collins; and Ottawa's Archbishop Terrence Prendergast.

From 2011 to 2012, Timothy Dolan led a root-and-branch review of all structures and processes at the Pontifical Irish College in Rome.

Timothy Dolan's report was highly critical of the college, as a result of which three Irish members of the staff were sent home and a fourth resigned.

In 2012, Timothy Dolan expressed his public disappointment in the contraceptive mandate promulgated by the Administration of President Barack Obama.

Timothy Dolan's invocation involved a recitation of King Solomon's prayer from the Book of Wisdom.

Timothy Dolan completed a pilgrimage to the Knock Shrine in Ireland in 2015.

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Timothy Dolan replaced Cardinal Francis George, who did not run for re-election.

Timothy Dolan was created Cardinal Priest of Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario.

Timothy Dolan was the first Archbishop of New York since 1946 not to receive the titular church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, as that title was still being held by his predecessor Cardinal Egan.

Timothy Dolan argued that police were mostly good people, even comparing them to priests.

In November 2009, Timothy Dolan signed an ecumenical statement known as the Manhattan Declaration, calling on evangelicals, Roman Catholics and Orthodox not to comply with rules and laws permitting abortion, same-sex marriage and other matters that go against their religious consciences.

In 2011, Timothy Dolan thanked the head of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, for a press release, reproduced on the Archdiocese of New York website, in which Donohue referred to the non-profit support group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests as a "phony victims' group".

In July 2013, documents made public during bankruptcy proceedings for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee showed that Timothy Dolan had sought permission to move $57 million in church funds to prevent them from being accessed by victims of clerical abuse.

In 2018 after the Pennsylvania report and the McCarrick scandal, a CNN interviewer asked Timothy Dolan whether homosexuality was a cause of the abuse.