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The Diocese of Pittsburgh applied for and obtained a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan of $2.5 million used to fund payroll for employees. The federal monies enabled the diocese to avoid, delay, and lessen furloughs and permanent reduction in staffing that supports parishes and schools.

In response to ongoing challenges presented by the global COVID-19 pandemic, Bishop David Zubik announced a reorganization of pastoral staff, and a relocation of central administration operations.

A team from Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Pittsburgh is working with focus groups of parents and teachers, as well as with diocesan officials, to create a responsible COVID-19 reopening plan for the 2020-2021 school year.

With additional mitigation efforts ordered for Allegheny County in the midst of a recent uptick in the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, churches will stay open, but Bishop David Zubik is strongly urging parishioners to consider their own health, and the health of others when making the decision to go to Mass.

A parishioner with potential exposure to COVID-19 who attended Mass at St. Januarius in Plum has tested negative for the virus.  The parishioner reported being with a relative who later tested positive for COVID-19.  

On June 19, 2020, Bishop David Zubik announced the forming of a personal parish for the Black Catholic community in the Diocese of Pittsburgh under the title of Saint Benedict the Moor Parish (Hill District) effective Monday, July 13, 2020.

On Sunday June 28, 2020 at 10 a.m., Bishop David A. Zubik will livestream a memorial Mass for all local Catholics who have died during the COVID-19 pandemic, many of whom did not have a funeral Mass due to the lockdown.

A parishioner who attended evening Mass at St. Januarius in Plum on Monday, June 22, 2020, is being tested for COVID-19 after a relative tested positive for the virus.

Bishop David A. Zubik, Diocese of Pittsburgh, will ordain three men to the priesthood during a Mass of Ordination on Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 10 a.m. at Saint Paul Cathedral in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood.

Bishop William J. Winter, Retired Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, will ordain seminarian Joseph S. Uzar (Joe) as a transitional deacon on Saturday, June 20, at 10 a.m. at Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Carnegie.

As a follow-up to a listening session on February 23, 2020, Bishop David Zubik is pleased to announce the establishment of a personal parish for the black Catholic Community in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, under the title of Saint Benedict the Moor Parish, effective July 13, 2020.

Transition support will be offered for teachers, principals, and families.

He calls their ministry, “a tremendous witness of discipleship”

The Diocese of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce a new name for a new elementary school resulting from the merger of St. Anne, St. Bernard, Our Lady of Grace, and St. Thomas More schools in the South Hills.  The school will be named Ave Maria Academy. The merger will take effect on July 1, 2020.

The spouse of an employee at The Shrines of Pittsburgh grouping has received a negative COVID-19 test result and is feeling better today.

The spouse of an employee at The Shrines of Pittsburgh grouping has been tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus and is awaiting test results.  Because parish staff work closely with parish priests, out of an abundance of caution, in-person Masses scheduled for this weekend at all churches in the grouping are canceled.

At this most critical time in the history of our country and our towns and cities, I ask that each one of you join with me as we focus on the absolute necessity of praying to God for guidance, courage and the vision that tears down walls and helps to build bridges. 

Watching a peaceful protest against racial injustice break down into violence in Pittsburgh, I am sending out an urgent call for calm as we work for justice.  I ask all believers to pray and act for peace, unity and that perfect balance of justice and mercy that is the hallmark of God’s work in our world.

Bishop David Zubik has accepted a formal recommendation by the Catholic High Schools of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Inc. (CHSDOP) Board of Directors to close Quigley High School effective at the end of the current school year.

Fifteen groupings of parishes in the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh will merge on July 1, 2020, to create fifteen new parishes, Bishop David Zubik announced today. Sixty-one parishes are part of the mergers.