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Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester
The
Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester
is a
diocese
of the
Catholic Church
in the Greater
Rochester
region of
New York State
in the
United States
. The region that the Diocese comprises extends from its northern border on the south shore of
Lake Ontario
through the
Finger Lakes
region to its southern border at the
New York
-
Pennsylvania
border. The Diocese of Rochester comprises 12 counties in New York, with approximately 350,000 Catholics and over 125 faith communities (parishes and chapels), 22 diocesan elementary schools and 7 independent parochial high schools. The metropolitan for the diocese is the Archbishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
, currently
Timothy Cardinal Dolan
. The
cathedral
parish
for the diocese is
Sacred Heart Cathedral
.
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