Timothy Cardinal Dolan is retiring after 16 years at the Archdiocese of New York, leaving behind a dual legacy of both compassion and fierce devotion to church teachings.

Pope Leo XIV has appointed the Rev. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, a native of the Dominican Republic, to succeed Bishop Gerald Barbarito.

Pope Leo has appointed Bishop Ronald Hicks to replace Cardinal Timothy Dolan, a friend of President Donald Trump who has served in the position since 2009, as New York’s newest archbishop, a major shake-up in the country’s Catholic leadership that appears to continue the pontiff’s pushback against Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown.

New York’s next archbishop is being heralded a “unifier” who will stick firmly to papal doctrine — just don’t expect to see him on talk shows any time soon. Pope Leo XIV appointed Ronald Hicks Jr., the current bishop of Joliet,