Albany, N.Y. — An 84-year-old retired bishop of Albany, who has been accused of sexual abuse and has unsuccessfully sought to be removed from the priesthood, said Tuesday he recently married a ...

Bishop Hubbard led the Diocese of Albany from 1977 to 2014. In a 2021 article for the Times Union, Bishop Hubbard admitted to mishandling sexual abuse allegations against priests while he was ...

The retired bishop of Albany, New York, who has admitted to covering up for predator priests and has himself been accused of sexual abuse, has asked Pope Francis to remove him from the priesthood ...

Bishop Howard Hubbard swings incense during an Ash Wednesday communion service at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Feb. 25, 2004, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight, File) ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (OSV News) -- Retired Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany has been hospitalized at Albany Medical Center after suffering a major stroke this week. “Please pray for Bishop Howard Hubbard.

Emeritus Bishop Howard Hubbard of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, N.Y., said he had married a woman after the Vatican declined his request to leave the clergy.

Sacred tradition and ceremony were served on Thursday as Rev. Monsignor Edward Bernard Scharfenberger was ordained and installed as the 10th bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany. More ...

ALBANY — The 13 nieces and nephews of Albany Bishop Emeritus Howard J. Hubbard, who died last week, are condemning Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger for what they said was a “detestable ...

About 300 lawsuits have been filed against the Albany diocese under a state law that allows people until Aug. 14 to sue over sexual abuse they say they endured as children, sometimes decades ago.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Bishop Emeritus Howard Hubbard of the Diocese of Albany has asked the Vatican to laicize him, claiming that Church policy prohibits him from publicly exercising his priestly ...

Bishop Howard Hubbard swings incense during an Ash Wednesday communion service at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Feb. 25, 2004, in Albany, N.Y. Hubbard, now retired and who has ...