The Diocese of Buffalo will be participating in a parish survey about discipleship conducted by the Catholic Leadership Institute. Information will be used to design a process to support the parishes and care for priests during the Road to Renewal. All parishioners are asked to participate in a 10-15 minute survey online.The survey can be […]
With the activation of the 26 parishes in the pilot stage of the Road to Renewal, transitional leaders were named on Jan. 19 as the pilot families were activated. The transitional leader is the point person for communication to the Diocesan Renewal Team. There is one transition leader per family. Msgr. Richard Siepka leads Family […]
“Encounter and Accompaniment” was the theme of three meetings that the Road to Renewal team held this past November and December. Over 350 parish ministry leaders and others, including priests, deacons, youth and young leaders, faith formation directors and coordinators, and school principals, received an overview of the Renewal process by Father Bryan Zielenieski; Deacon […]
After a year in the consultative process, the Diocese of Buffalo’s Families of Parishes are now finalized. A total of 36 families will be formed by the current 161 parishes in the diocese. These parishes will join together in small groups to share resources and staff under one pastor with an increased role for the […]
Buffalo, N.Y, Dec. 1, 2021 – The Diocese of Buffalo’s Road to Renewal effort which has the goal to reinvigorate the Catholic faith, fully optimize parish and diocesan resources, and increase the reach and impact of ministries throughout Western New York has announced the finalized Families of Parishes model. Following vast consultation with clergy and the […]
More than 40 young Catholics came from throughout the diocese on Tuesday night, Nov. 16, to share their experiences of growing up and practicing their faith as the Road to Renewal hosted a Young Adult Listening session at St. Leo the Great Parish in Amherst. Following a welcome from Father Bryan Zielenieski, vicar for Renewal […]
The pace on the Road to Renewal within the Diocese of Buffalo accelerates following the review of draft parish families by the Diocesan Pastoral Council on Oct. 30. Of the 36 parish families that were originally drafted, 12 families submitted proposed changes to their families. On Nov. 5, Father Bryan Zielenieski sent communication to those […]
The Road to Renewal effort is an opportunity for the Diocese of Buffalo to reinvigorate the Catholic faith, fully optimize parish and diocesan resources and more importantly increase the reach and impact of ministries throughout Western New York. In 2020, then Buffalo Apostolic Administrator Bishop Edward Scharfenberger commissioned the Parish Model Task Force and later […]
The Road to Renewal effort is one of the largest projects within the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo ever, and, obviously, the amount of effort to heal, enhance and renew every aspect of our Catholic experience is significant undertaking. To help bolster the effort are several recent hires that are in large part, or solely, assigned […]
One of the keys to success of the Road to Renewal’s effort to transform how the diocese is structured is the input of laity during the consultative phase of the Road effort. The following are reports from representatives from two parishes that highlight what has transpired within the parish conversations during Family of Parish meetings. […]
