A Vatican office has ruled in favor of Bishop Michael W. Fisher’s decision to merge St. Michael and St. Louis parishes.

Bishop Michael Fisher Fisher was appointed Bishop on Dec. 1, 2020, by Pope Francis. Fisher said he had never been to Buffalo and was not up to speed on any of the monumental challenges it faces.

Bishop Fisher, who is a native of Long Island, New York, was consecrated the ninth bishop on Dec. 1, 2012. He succeeded Bishop Gordon Paul Scruton, who had been elected in 1996.

Bishop Fisher, who was 47, had battled cancer for more than two years. He was first diagnosed with colon cancer in April 1991, but he went into complete remission that November after surgery and ...

Bishop Fisher is now the 15th bishop to serve. He was officially installed during a mass at Saint Joseph Cathedral in downtown Buffalo. Bishop Fisher just pledging to listen to those hurt by abuse.

Bishop Fisher comes to Buffalo at a time when the diocese is dealing with a mountain of sex abuse lawsuits, bankruptcy proceedings, and a profound sense of grief among the shaken Catholics who ...

Bishop Fisher's tinkering with/destroying/altering the source and summit of Catholic life - the Mass - is misguided, outrageous and disrespectful to this community.

Bishop Fisher said he feels that he has done all that he could to bring people together. "There's always more that we can do, and we will," he said.

Both former Bishop Richard Malone and former Auxiliary Bishop Edward Grosz were among the invited guests at Bishop Fisher's installation ceremony.

Awaiting Bishop Fisher is a chancery with a tarnished reputation, a diocese named in hundreds of clergy abuse lawsuits, an ongoing bankruptcy process, the possible closure of parishes and schools ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Diocese of Buffalo Bishop Michael Fisher responded Thursday after a group of local Catholics asked the Vatican for his ousting, claiming Fisher is failing the community ...

Although Michael Fisher's rise in the church's administrative ranks was launched by Theodore McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, D.C., from 2001 to 2006, Fisher has not been implicated in the scandal ...