Pope Leo XIV is expected to appoint a bishop from his native Illinois to replace the retiring Cardinal Timothy Dolan as archbishop of New York, according to Catholic media reports.
An anonymous source with ties to church leaders in New York and Rome confirmed to The Washington Times that Ronald Hicks, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Joliet, near the pope’s hometown of Chicago, will be appointed as soon as Thursday.
Bishop Hicks would succeed Cardinal Dolan, who submitted his age-mandated retirement upon turning 75 in February, as the leader of New York City’s 2.8 million Catholics…