April 6, 2018 at 1:53 p.m.
LIST OF CHANGES

By the end of 2011, 33 worship sites will close

The following is the final list of closures and mergers in parishes of the Albany Diocese.

ALBANY COUNTY
IN THE CITY OF ALBANY:
• St. John/St. Ann's and St. James will merge by July 1, 2010, with both worship sites remaining open.
• St. Teresa of Avila and St. Catherine of Siena will merge by October 1, 2009. St. Teresa's worship site will close.
• Holy Cross and St. Margaret Mary will merge by October 1, 2009. Holy Cross worship site will close.
• St. Teresa's School and Holy Cross School will merge on July 1, 2009, at the Holy Cross School site.

ELSEWHERE IN
ALBANY COUNTY:
• St. Bernard's (Cohoes) will close by February 25, 2009.
• St. Joseph's (Cohoes) will close by February 25, 2009.
• St. Rita/Sacred Heart (Cohoes) will close by February 25, 2009.
• St. Michael's (Cohoes) will become a territorial parish, will remain open.
• St. Bernadette's Mission Church (Berne) will close by December 31, 2010.

COLUMBIA COUNTY
• St. Mary's (Hudson) and Resurrection (Germantown) will merge by July 1, 2009, with both remaining open.
• St. John Vianney (Claverack) and St. Bridget's (Copake Falls) will share a pastor, and conduct feasibility study on possible merger and worship site. The findings of the feasibility study are to be submitted to the Diocese by December 31, 2009.
• Nativity/St. Mary's (Stuy-vesant Falls) and Holy Family (Stottville) will merge by December 31, 2009, with both remaining open.

DELAWARE COUNTY
• Our Lady of Good Counsel Mission Church (Roxbury) will close immediately.

FULTON COUNTY
• St. Mary of Mount Carmel (Gloversville) and Sacred Heart (Gloversville) will merge by July 1, 2009; determination of which worship site will close to be made by July 1, 2009.
• Holy Trinity (Johnstown) to determine by July 1, 2009, which one of its three worship sites will remain open.

GREENE COUNTY
• St. Patrick's (Catskill) to conduct feasibility study of parish facilities by December 31, 2009; at that time the Diocese will revisit possible merger with St. Patrick's (Athens).
• Immaculate Conception (Haines Falls) and Sacred Heart (Palenville) will merge by July 1, 2009, with both remaining open.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
• St. Casimir's (Amsterdam) will close by May 3, 2009.
• St. John the Baptist (Amsterdam) wil close February 25, 2009.
• St. Michael's worship site (Amsterdam) will close by February 25, 2009.
• Ss. Peter & Paul (Cana-joharie), St. James (Fort Plain) and St. Patrick's (St. Johnsville) will merge by July 1, 2009. Recommendations on worship site(s) to be submitted to the Diocese by July 1, 2010.

OTSEGO COUNTY
• Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mission Church (Edmeston) will close by July 1, 2009.
• St. Mary's Mission Church (Sharon Springs) will close by December 31, 2009.
• Blessed Sacrament Mission Church (Springfield Center) will close by October 18, 2009.
• St. Thomas (Cherry Valley) will become a mission church of St. Mary's (Cooperstown) by July 1, 2010 with both remaining open.

RENSSELAER COUNTY
IN THE CITY OF TROY:
• St. Patrick's will close by July 1, 2010.
• St. Peter's will close by May 31, 2009 (Tridentine Mass will move to St. Joseph's in Troy).
• St. Paul the Apostle will close by May 31, 2009 (Perpetual Adoration Chapel will move to Chapel at St. Mary's Hospital in Troy).
• St. Francis de Sales will close by February 25, 2009.
• St. Mary's will close by July 1, 2010.
• St. William's will close by February 25, 2009.

ELSEWHERE IN
RENSSELAER COUNTY:
• St. Joseph's/St. John's (Rensselaer) will determine one worship site for parish by July 1, 2009, with other worship site to close by July 1, 2010.
• St. Bonaventure (Speigle-town) and Holy Trinity (Schaghticoke) will merge by July 1, 2010, with both remaining open.
• St. John Francis Regis (Grafton) and Sacred Heart (Berlin) will merge by September 1, 2009, with both remaining open.
• St. George Mission Church (Pittstown) will close by July 1, 2009.

SARATOGA COUNTY
• Assumption/St. Paul (Mechanicville) will determine one worship site by July 1, 2009.

SCHENECTADY COUNTY
• Our Lady of Assumption (Rotterdam) and Immaculate Conception (Schenectady) will merge by July 1, 2010; Immaculate Conception worship site will close by January 1, 2011.
• St. John the Baptist (Schenectady) will close by February 25, 2009.
• St. Mary's (Schenectady) will close by July 1, 2009.
• St. Margaret of Cortona (Rotterdam Junction) will be-come a mission church of St. Joseph's (Schenectady) by July 1, 2009.

SCHOHARIE COUNTY
• St. Joseph's (Schoharie) and St. Catherine's (Middleburgh) will merge by July 1, 2009. St. Joseph's worship site will close by July 1, 2009.
• St. Mary's Mission Church (Schenevus) will close by February 25, 2009.
• St. Anna's (Summit) will close by July 1, 2009.

WARREN COUNTY
• St. Alphonsus (Glens Falls) will close by July 1, 2010.
• Immaculate Conception (Corinth) and Holy Infancy (Lake Luzerne) will merge by July 1, 2009, with both remaining open.
• St. John the Baptist (Chestertown) and Blessed Sacrament (Hague) will merge by December 31, 2009, with both remaining open.

WASHINGTON COUNTY
• St. Joseph's (Fort Edward) and St. Mary's/St. Paul's (Hudson Falls) will share a pastor in July, 2010, with both remaining open.
• Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Granville) will close by April 13, 2009.

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