[BlackElk]

I was unfamiliar with the term "suffragen." Does that term describe a bishop within the territory of a "metropolitan" archbishop and that the Brooklyn bishop as well as bishops in Rockville Center, Syracuse and other upstate sees are therefore suffragens of the New York Archbishop/Metropolitan?

Please fill the other gaps in my knowledge here. Who is the present (diocesan ordinary) bishop of Brooklyn? When was he appointed? Where had he served previously? Is the term "suffragen" or suffragan?"

[wideawake]

Does that term describe a bishop within the territory of a "metropolitan" archbishop and that the Brooklyn bishop as well as bishops in Rockville Center, Syracuse and other upstate sees are therefore suffragens of the New York Archbishop/Metropolitan?

Correct. The word is "suffragan" from "suffrage" meaning having a voice or a vote. The term comes from the metropolitan bihop's council, which was made up of neighboring bishops of non-metropolitan rank - the local synod if you will.

The present ordianry of Brooklyn is Nicholas DiMarzio. He was installed in October of '03. He's 62 and he started off as a priest in Newark in '70 and was an auxiliary bishop in Camden, NJ for 4 years before he came to Brooklyn.