Archdiocese of Detroit announces major restructuring and job cuts

The Archdiocese of Detroit, faced with a critical cash-flow problem costing $1.2 million per month, has announced a major financial restructuring of its programs and properties. The changes will cut almost 80 positions.

“The financial realities of our current circumstances are sobering; the resulting changes for the administrative structure of the archdiocese are significant,” Archbishop of Detroit Allen H. Vigneron said in a statement from the archdiocese.

Speaking at a September 3 presentation of the restructuring plans, the archbishop announced his acceptance of the recommendations of a six-month-long study. In spring of 2009 he had commissioned two separate committees comprised of lay people and clergy to assess the financial well-being of the archdiocese.

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