Welcome Archbishop-elect Richard Henning!

Archbishop-elect Richard G. Henning, S.T.D. was born in Rockville Centre, New York in 1964 to Richard and Maureen Henning, the first of five siblings.  He grew up in Valley Stream receiving the sacraments of Baptism, First Holy Communion, and Confirmation at Holy Name of Mary Parish, where he also attended the parish grammar school.  He attended Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York and counts the Marianists as a major influence in his faith life and commitment to learning.  He received a BA and MA in History from St. John’s University, Queens New York and received his training for the priesthood at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, New York.

Fluent in Spanish, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1992.   He earned a Licentiate in Biblical Theology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and a Doctorate in the same from the University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy.   After his studies, Archbishop-elect Henning joined the faculty of the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, where he taught scripture for more than ten years.  In 2012, as part of the partnership for seminary formation among the Dioceses of Rockville Centre, Brooklyn, and the Archdiocese of New York, then Rev. Msgr. Henning was appointed to lead the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception through its transition to the largest retreat house in the Northeast.

Archbishop-elect Henning will be installed as our new archbishop on October 31st.