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The Archdiocese of Newark is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in northeastern New Jersey, United States. Its ecclesiastic territory includes all of the Catholic parishes and schools in the New Jersey counties of Bergen, Union, Hudson and Essex (where the city of Newark is located).〔(Newark Archdiocese is diverse and densely populated ), Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. Accessed July 24, 2007. " Archbishop John J. Myers is moving from the plains of Illinois to the geographically smallest diocese in the United States; but its encompass about 1.3 million Catholics. It is one of the busiest, largest and most diverse dioceses in the nation. The Archdiocese of Newark encompasses the northeastern New Jersey counties of Bergen, Essex, Union, and Hudson and the population totals 2.8 million people."〕 ==History== Originally established as the Diocese of Newark in 1853 by Pope Pius IX, it was elevated to Archdiocese in 1937 by Pope Pius XI. Newark's Saint Mary's Abbey was instrumental in the 1889 founding of Saint Anselm College, a Catholic, Benedictine college in Goffstown, New Hampshire. The Archbishop of Newark presides from the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. The Archdiocese is currently led by Archbishop John J. Myers. Myers is metropolitan for all the New Jersey dioceses: the Diocese of Camden, the Diocese of Metuchen, the Diocese of Paterson and the Diocese of Trenton. On Tuesday, September 24, 2013, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Bernard Hebda, until then the fourth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaylord, in Gaylord, Michigan, as Coadjutor Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, meaning that when Archbishop Myers retires, resigns, or dies, Archbishop Hebda would immediately succeed him as Archbishop of Newark.〔http://attualita.vatican.va/sala-stampa/bollettino/2013/09/24/news/31740.html〕〔http://usccb.org/news/2013/13-172e.cfm〕 In February 2014, the ''New York Times'' reported Archbishop Myers planned to retire to a 7,500-foot "palace" expanded at his direction in Pittstown, New Jersey.〔A Church So Poor It Has to Close Schools, Yet So Rich It Can Build a Palace, by MIchael Powell, 19 February 2014, New York Times〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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