BUFFALO (NY)
WKBW
January 15, 2021
By Eileen Buckley
“I pledge to listen, to comfort”
“To make possible a new and more promising era,” declared Bishop Michael Fisher, Catholic Diocese of Buffalo.
Bishop Fisher is now the 15th bishop to serve. He was officially installed during a mass at Saint Joseph Cathedral in downtown Buffalo.
Fisher arrives to take the helm at a tumultuous time as the Buffalo Diocese is under siege. accused of covering up priest sex abuse for years.
Bishop Fisher says he is now ready to lead a flock of the 600,000 Catholics across the eight counties of Western New York.
But he has the difficult task of restoring trust and leading the diocese out of deep darkness from the decades of mishandling the clergy sex abuse scandal.
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