By Jay Tokasz
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 05/15/08 10:04 AM
With 25 church properties already on the market, and several more to be added soon, the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo is asking a group of professionals to help find redevelopment ideas for its closed churches.
Jay Tokasz - News Staff Reporter
- first published 10/14/2007
Updated: 05/09/08 11:46 AM
Eleven Catholic churches in Niagara County will close and two other churches will become occasional worship sites, part of dozens of changes being announced across the Diocese of Buffalo this weekend as diocesan officials expand their efforts to realign parishes and deal with an anticipated priest shortage.
Jay Tokasz - News Staff Reporter
- first published 06/09/2005
Updated: 05/09/08 1:35 PM
Bishop Edward U. Kmiec launched his first major initiative as head of the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo on Wednesday, asking priests for their support in a sweeping effort to reconfigure the region's parishes and schools.
Jay Tokasz - News Staff Reporter
Updated: 05/09/08 11:37 AM
The dirt was thick inside the former St. Bartholomew Catholic Church, vacant for nearly eight years. Cleaning companies wanted at least $3,000 to make the place shine again.The 100 or so members of Ephesus Ministries, a nondenominational Christian church that bought the property last year for $120,000 from the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, decided to do it themselves. Work remains, but Ephesus has transformed the glorious Grider Street edifice into its own.
Jay Tokasz - News Staff Reporter
- first published 11/08/2005
Updated: 05/09/08 11:51 AM
As many as 100 churches in the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo would have to be closed or merged to bring the diocese in line with others of similar population, geographic size and priest numbers.
