With very little pomp and circumstance, Albany Bishop Emeritus Howard Hubbard was laid to rest on Friday.

“Where by life and not death have the final say, where that even when our days are over on this earth, our eternity is only beginning, and it is that eternity that we accompany our brother Howard towards, as we pray for him today, not only remembering, but hoping,” said Albany Bishop Edward Sharfenberger, who celebrated the Mass of Christian burial at St. Pius X in Loudonville.

Many of the funeral details had been kept private since Hubbard’s passing following a stroke last weekend at the age of 84.

Hubbard had asked the Vatican to be returned to the lay state before his death, but that was denied due to outstanding lawsuits against him regarding sexual abuse cases.

Hubbard made headlines again recently, when he announced he had married a woman in a civil…