The John Jay report found that the problem did not occur only in large archdioceses or those where cases have already become public.

Bishop Daily, 74, oversees the nation's fifth largest archdiocese or diocese, with 1.6 million parishioners in Brooklyn and Queens.

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles leads the largest archdiocese in the country.

Chicago is the largest archdiocese to organize such wide-ranging events focused on evangelization and re-energizing Catholics.

Milan was the largest archdiocese in Italy at the time, with more than 3,000 clergy and 800,000 people.

Newark, celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, is the seventh largest American archdiocese in population, with 1.3 million Catholics.

It is the third largest Catholic archdiocese in the United States.

Now, however, the United States has several large archdioceses and a number of cardinal-archbishops.

Advocates for abuse victims said they were baffled by New York's rate - paltry compared with 7 percent in Boston, another large, urban archdiocese.

It is currently the largest archdiocese in the Philippines having the most number of Catholics, seminarians, and priests.