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In Rare Move, Retired Albany Bishop Files for Personal Bankruptcy After Pension Verdict, by Matthew McDonald – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Matthew McDonald, National Catholic Register, December 19, 2025

Matthew McDonald is a staff reporter for The National Catholic Register and the editor of New Boston Post. He lives in Massachusetts.

The filing follows a civil trial in which a jury found the former bishop and other officials personally liable for the collapse of a pension fund serving employees of a Catholic hospital in Schenectady, New York.

A retired New York bishop has filed for personal bankruptcy protection in federal court after a state jury verdict found him, along with other officials, personally liable for the collapse of a Catholic hospital pension fund that left about 1,100 retirees without the lifetime monthly payments they were expecting.

It’s not clear whether a Catholic bishop in the United States has ever previously filed for personal bankruptcy protection.

Bishop Edward Scharfenberger, 77, who served as bishop of Albany from April 2014 until his retirement in October, is seeking protection from creditors for his assets valued at between $100,001 and $500,000, according to a filing Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York. …

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