Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik has sold the diocese's 39-room episcopal mansion for over $2 million.A statement from the diocese identified the buyer as "a private trust" and said, "Religious art and furnishings were removed from the home prior to the sale and placed in storage for future church-related use", The Pittsburgh Channel reports.
Bishop Zubik spent only two weeks there after he was appointed in 2007. He moved into a two-room apartment at St. Paul's Seminary.
Church officials decided it wasn't practical to keep the home built in 1910.
David McCahill, an attorney and civic leader, bought the mansion in 1928 and donated it to the church in 1949.
Previous Pittsburg Bishop Donald Wuerl now Archbishop of Washington once hosted President George W. Bush at the mansion.
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