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Evan Klimasewski receives Communion from Father James Schwartz during a First Friday Mass at Pen eld’s St. Joseph Church in January 2017.
Jean Yorio, a rst-year principal in 2016 at Horseheads’ St. Mary Our Mother School chats with pre-kindergartner Alejandro Toribio.
Johnathan Bailey uses a Chromebook at St. Francis-St. Stephen School in Geneva in 2016.
The Diocese of Rochester was the third diocese in the United States to complete the Middle States process as a system of schools, ensuring all diocesan schools are of the highest quality. Members of the Middle States visiting team described the system as faith community whose members loved each other, acted with justice and walked humbly with God, truly embodying the mission of diocesan Catholic schools
Rachael Derby (from left), Katherine Johnson and Jaimie Chapin, seventh-graders at St. Mary School in Canandaigua, laugh with their classmates during a 2013 meeting of the school’s Ukulele Club.