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## Mayor Mamdani Skips Installation of New Catholic Archbishop, Draws Criticism
“The installation began a few hours after the Interfaith Breakfast at the New York Public Library; it is indeed a short walk up Fifth Avenue to St. Patrick’s cathedral,” the league said,referring to an event Mayor Mamdani made time for earlier.
“He could easily have been there. Rather, he attended to business as usual.”
The mayor’s public schedule for that day only listed the prayer breakfast at 10 a.m.,followed by a winter weather press conference at 4 p.m.
Gov.Kathy Hochul, who is Catholic, was in Syracuse formally accepting the nomination for another term at the Democratic convention at the time of the ceremony and was unable to attend.
Bill Cunningham, former communications director and top adviser to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who attended the installation ceremony for Archbishop Dolan in 2009, told the Post he believes it was a “mistake” for Mayor Mamdani not to show up.
“It was a missed opportunity for the mayor to show he wants to serve all the segments of the city,” Cunningham said.
“There are certain institutions the mayor of New York might want to take note of. One of them is the Catholic church,” he said, noting that Catholics pay attention to how the church and its institutions are treated.
The naming of a new archbishop has been an event that has historically transcended a mayor’s own faith.
Michael Bloomberg is Jewish, as was late former Mayor Ed Koch – and both attended New York archbishop installations during their respective tenures. Mayor Koch was present for the ceremony of Cardinal John O’Connor in 1984.
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a catholic, was at St. Patrick’s for the installation of Cardinal Edward Egan in 2000.
Giuliani’s spokesman for his 1993 campaign, Ken Frydman, took a dim view of the current mayor sitting out the event.
“I thought Mamdani only disdains Jews who like Israel,” frydman
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