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Philadelphia-area Catholics have the first time in a century have a homegrown archbishop in Nelson Pérez, who is being installed Tuesday afternoon in a grand ceremony at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. So who exactly is Nelson Pérez? Here are some facts about the new leader.

As Philadelphia prepares to welcome Nelson Pérez as the new Catholic archbishop, NBC10’s Lucy Bustamante breaks down what made him first Hispanic to lead Philly’s Church.

With his installation scheduled for Tuesday, Philadelphia’s newest Archbishop Nelson Pérez spoke to NBC10’s Rosemary Connors about his excitement and plans for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Nelson Perez will be installed next month as the first Hispanic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. NBC10’s Deanna Durante gets reactions from parishioners.

Rev. Kevin Gallagher of Saint Denis Parish in Havertown, Pennsylvania, shares insight as the Archdiocese of Philadelphia names Cleveland Bishop Nelson J. Perez as its next archbishop.

Italy’s government declared a state of emergency Thursday in flood-ravaged Venice, seeking to release funds to repair the historic lagoon city after it was damaged by the highest tide in 50 years. A cabinet meeting approved a special decree that included 20 million euros ($21.7 million) in immediate financial aid aimed at helping the city recover. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte...

Former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis is laughing off an insult hurled at him by President Donald Trump. Speaking at a New York charity event Thursday the day after Trump demeaned him as “the world’s most overrated general,” Mattis joked that he took it as a compliment. “I’m not just an overrated general. I’m the greatest, the world’s most overrated,”...

Baby Archie made a rare public appearance on Wednesday as his parents, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, continued their first official tour as a family in South Africa. Meghan held Archie as the royal couple met with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town. The youngest member of Britain’s royal family had been...

Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, the former archbishop of Philadelphia, has been mentioned as part of a series of sexual abuse lawsuit in the Diocese of Brooklyn. A woman accuses him of sexually abusing her prior to making his way up in the ranks of the church. Bevilacqua died in 2012.

An Australian appeals court Wednesday upheld convictions against Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children, in a decision cheered by scores of abuse survivors and victims’ advocates demonstrating outside the court. A unanimous jury in December found Pope Francis’ former finance minister guilty of molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne’s St. Patrick’s...

Investigations remain underway after 1,862 calls were made to a clergy abuse hotline in the 12 months since a landmark grand jury report exposed decades of child abuse within Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses, the state attorney general said Tuesday.

The Indianapolis archbishop has forced a Catholic high school to fire a gay teacher, just days after another school in the city defied a similar order despite church officials saying they would no longer recognize it as Catholic.

The Greek Orthodox church of the United States, a far-flung denomination of 1.5-million members, on Saturday installed its first new leader in 20 years — a lifelong European whose top priority is completing construction of a shrine in New York City linked to the Sept. 11 attacks. Elpidophoros Lambriniadis, 51, a native of Istanbul and a longtime theology professor in...

Hundreds of boxes. Millions of records. From Michigan to New Mexico this month, attorneys general are sifting through files on clergy sex abuse, seized through search warrants and subpoenas at dozens of archdioceses. They’re looking to prosecute, and not just priests. If the boxes lining the hallways of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s offices contain enough evidence, she said, she...

More than a month after a music teacher at a Main Line high school was charged with having sex with a student, the theater director at the same school is also accused of sexually assaulting a student.

The theater director at Archbishop Carroll High School in Radnor is accused of having sex with a student. The arrest comes more than a month after a music teacher at the same school was accused of having sex with a student.

Three brothers who were sexually abused by a priest from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Vatican, claiming the Holy See bears responsibility because the case was mishandled by former Archbishop John Nienstedt and the Vatican’s former ambassador to the United States. The lawsuit attempts to trace a direct line from clergy...

A Minnesota lawsuit seeks to force the Vatican to release the names and files of all clergy worldwide accused of abuse. The plaintiffs are five men, all survivors of clergy abuse, including three brothers who say their abuser is former St. Paul priest.