FEB. – Issues New Organizational  Chart for Central Diocesan  Administration 

MARCH 2 – Announces Migration  Services will assist legal permanent  residents, press conference at Our  Lady of Sorrows with Sen. Charles  Schumer 

MARCH 10 – Press Conference with Cardinal Dolan at 1011 First Ave. to kick off campaign for Education  Investment Tax Credits 

MARCH 18 – Leads rally for tax  credits (education) in Albany

APRIL 10 – Attends Ordination  and Installation of Bishop Scharfenberger in Albany 

MAY 13 – Dedicates St. Joseph’s  Co-Cathedral, Prospect Heights

JULY 20 – Blesses new Father  Thomas Jung Education Center for  Koreans at St. Paul Chong Ha-Sang Church,  Flushing 

SEPT. 6 – Presides at prayer service  for peace and reconciliation in the  neighborhoods at St. Peter Claver  Church, Bedford-Stuyvesant 

OCT. 4 – Attends beatification of  Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich  in Newark 

OCT. 25 – Leads diocesan pilgrimage  to National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC

NOV.21 – Meets Pope Francis at VII  World Congress of Pontifical Council  on the Pastoral Care of Migrant and  Itinerant People