Resignation and appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Boston, U.S.A.

The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Boston, United States of America, presented by His Eminence Cardinal Séan Patrick O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap.

The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Richard G. Henning of Providence, United States of America, as metropolitan archbishop of Boston, United States of America.

Curriculum vitae

Archbishop-elect Richard G. Henning was born on 17 October 1964 in Rockville Centre, in the diocese of the same name. He was awarded a bachelor’s degree and a Master of Arts in history at Saint John’s University, Queens, New York, and carried out his ecclesiastical studies at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington.

He was ordained a priest for the diocese of Rockville Centre on 30 May 1992.

After ordination, he first held the role of parish vicar of Saint Peter of Alcantara, Port Washington (1992-1997). He obtained a licentiate in biblical theology at the Catholic University of America, Washington (2000) and a doctorate in biblical theology from the University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Rome (2007), and went on to serve as associate professor of Sacred Scripture, then professor and formator at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, Huntington (2002-2012), rector of the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception and director of the Sacred Heart Institute for Ongoing Formation of the Clergy (2012-2018), episcopal vicar of the Central Vicariate (2017), vicar for Parish Evangelization and Pastoral Planning (2018), and vicar for the clergy (2021).

He was appointed titular bishop of Tabla and auxiliary of Rockville Centre on 8 June 2018, and received episcopal consecration the following 24 July. He was appointed coadjutor bishop of Providence on 23 November 2022, assuming governance of the diocese on 1 May 2023.