Up the Hudson from Gotham, in the capital church of the Empire State, there are middle aged pastors who, all their lives, have only ever known one bishop....
At least, until today.
On the flip-side, meanwhile, for the one tasked with following the longest episcopal reign modern American Catholicism is ever likely to know – a titanic 37-year tenure in the chair first held by the nation's founding cardinal – expectations are just as high that Opening Day will make a splash... and in his maiden turn before the crowd in Albany, Bishop Ed Scharfenberger did just that.
As starts go, it was, in a word, impressive – deeply so. (And while we're at it, an unusually live mic that let the principal consecrator's animated commentary make the rounds deserves a very grateful honorable mention.)
Beginning with the last Nuncio's famous first words to many of his appointees, here's something no one's been able to say since 1977 – Church, the new bishop of Albany:
by Rocco Palmo via Whispers in the Loggia
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