Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - Albany, New York

"The Cathedral stands to challenge the imagination, to lift the heart where forever all is light. Here is an anchorage, and a refuge, a place to watch and pray, …"

Edmund F. Gibbons, Sixth Bishop of Albany, November 1927

Albany’s Diocesan Mother Church, The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, stands as a living testament to the storied history of the Catholic Church in America and to the devotion and commitment of our founders.

It is my hope and prayer that you will join with me and the many people who have so generously donated to preserve The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

- Howard J. Hubbard, D.D.
Bishop of Albany

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The Cathedral is the spiritual center “the Mother Church“ of the 14 counties of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany. The Cathedral houses the “Cathedra”, the Bishop’s Chair and symbol of his teaching authority as Chief Pastor and Shepherd over the Church of Albany. Major liturgical feasts and celebrations are held in the Cathedral such as Christmas Midnight Mass, Holy Week, Easter, the Rite of Election, the Chrism Mass, and the ordinations of Bishops, Priests and Deacons. The Cathedral as our Mother Church belongs to all the 400,000 Catholics in the Diocese of Albany.

"The Cathedral," as Bishop Hubbard states, "is a dynamic symbol of the sacred in the midst of the secular, offering beauty, solace and comfort to all who enter." Every day people from all walks of life visit the Cathedral and find a harbor of refuge in the heart of the city. 


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