Roman Catholic Cardinal Edward Egan, the former archbishop of New York, has died. He was 82.
Egan headed the Diocese of Bridgeport from 1988 to the year 2000, when he was appointed by Pope John Paul the Second to lead the New York archdiocese.
During his time in Connecticut, Egan oversaw the regionalization of diocesan elementary schools.
He also came under fire for his role in the handling of child sex abuse by priests, and a long, highly-charged battle over public access to materials documenting how church leaders moved pedophile priests from one unaware parish to the another.