The Albany Diocese case remains in an active, litigation- and mediation-heavy Chapter 11, with the debtor continuing ordinary operations while committees, insurers, pension advisers, and professionals work through abuse-claim, insurance, pension, and plan issues rather than a confirmed plan path. The latest operating snapshot shows the debtor still funding the case estate and professional process: April 2026 receipts were $1.64 million against $2.24 million of disbursements, cumulative postpetition professional fees paid had reached $11.45 million, and the debtor reported no non-ordinary-course asset sales during the month in its April 2026 monthly operating reportDkt. 2619.
The Diocese filed Chapter 11 on March 15, 2023, after New York’s Child Victims Act reopened limitations periods and produced 440 CVA actions against the Diocese before the petition date. Its first-day record framed the case as a claims-resolution and survivor-compensation proceeding intended to maximize assets for abuse survivors, administer claims through a fair process, provide certainty for unresolved claims, and preserve diocesan ministries serving Catholics and social-service recipients across upstate New York through the petition-support declarationDkt. 6. The CFO declaration supplied the operating baseline: as of December 31, 2022, the Diocese reported $37.7 million of assets, $10.3 million of liabilities, 75 employees, investment pools held through diocesan structures, and a $4.3 million Trustco Bank letter of credit securing workers’ compensation obligations in the operations and balance-sheet declarationDkt. 7.
The restructuring has since widened beyond a simple debtor-creditor proceeding. In June 2023, the Diocese commenced an adversary proceeding seeking injunctive and declaratory relief against abuse claimants and related parties through the claimant adversary complaintDkt. 1. In October 2023, the Diocese and numerous parish and affiliated Catholic entities filed a separate insurance-coverage adversary complaint against London-market, Hartford, Catholic Mutual, National Catholic Risk Retention, and other insurers, making insurance recovery a central value driver for any survivor distribution framework through the insurance adversary complaintDkt. 1.
As of late May 2026, the docket points to continuing mediation, appeals, claims administration, and plan work rather than exit. The Tort Claimants Committee’s April 2026 fee statement describes work on appellate briefs involving LMI and Hartford, mediation with the debtor and insurers, claims objections, creditor communications, and plan and disclosure-statement strategy, including distribution protocols and participating-party issues, in the TCC April fee statementDkt. 2618. The court also amended the TCC’s pension-adviser retention to authorize Actuarial Value, LLC effective March 11, 2026, signaling that pension issues remain part of the case architecture through the amended pension-adviser retention orderDkt. 2616.
