extending the lookback period contained in the Child Victims Act to January 14, 2021. In June 2020, it was revealed that 52 new sex abuse lawsuits had been filed against the Diocese of Albany. Priest shortage In 1960, there were more than 400 priests in the diocese. In 2016, for the first time in history, there were more retired (90) than active (85) priests in the diocese. In 2021, in the northern part of the diocese, one priest was pastor of 12 parishes. Parishes As of May 2021, there were 126 parishes in the Diocese of Albany. Territorial losses Bishops Bishops of Albany John McCloskey (1847-1864), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of New York and subsequently succeeded to see (elevated to Cardinal in 1875) John J. Conroy (1865-1877) Francis McNeirny (1877-1894; coadjutor bishop 1871-1877) Thomas Martin Aloysius Burke (1894-1915) Thomas Cusack (1915-1918) Edmund Gibbons (1919-1954) William Scully (1954-1969; coadjutor bishop 1945-1954) Edwin Broderick (1969-1976) Howard J. Hubbard (1977-2014) Edward Bernard Scharfenberger (2014–present) Former auxiliary bishop Edward Joseph Maginn (1957-1972) Other priests of this diocese who became bishops Francis Patrick McFarland, appointed Bishop of Hartford in 1858 Edgar Philip Prindle Wadhams, appointed Bishop of Ogdensburg in 1872 Patrick Anthony Ludden, appointed Bishop of Syracuse in 1886 John Joseph Thomas Ryan, appointed Archbishop of Anchorage in 1966 and later Archbishop for the Military Services, USA Matthew Harvey Clark, appointed Bishop of Rochester in 1979 Harry Joseph Flynn, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Lafayette in Louisiana in 1986 (later succeeded to see) and later Coadjutor Archbishop and Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis John Gavin Nolan, appointed Auxiliary Bishop for the Military Services, USA in 1987 Joseph Walter Estabrook, appointed Auxiliary Bishop for the Military Services, USA in 2004 During their terms as bishops of Albany, the first five named were accorded the title "Right Reverend" because the American church was still considered a province. From Bishop Gibbons on, they have been entitled "Most Reverend". John McCloskey was "Most Reverend" after his move to New York, where he later became "His Eminence". Six of Albany's deceased Bishops are buried in a crypt beneath the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. John McCloskey is interred beneath St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, and Bishop Broderick is buried in a family plot in Westchester County. Education Enrollment data for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school year was obtained from New York State Department of Education Non-Public Enrollment. Enrollment data for