Albany Diocesan Cemeteries manages 22 cemeteries throughout the capital district. The mission of Albany Diocesan Cemeteries is to help Catholics accept death in the context of their faith.

We will serve as a resource on cemetery and funeral related issues to the Catholic community, help people prepare for death, and provide an opportunity to plan burial arrangements in advance.
We will extend comfort and service at the time of death and burial and are open to opportunities to console people who have entrusted the care of their loved ones because the cemetery is where people come to grieve.
We will direct people to appropriate support groups or professionals, and provide support for parish ministries to the bereaved.
We will offer our employees meaningful careers and our programs will be faithful to our values, beliefs and traditions.
We will perform our ministry with the needs of our Catholic community first and foremost, with 
compassion and integrity.
The burial of the dead has always been recognized by the Church as a religious rite and a corporal work of mercy. In exercising our ministry, we uphold a compassionate respect for all, living and deceased, and provide unsurpassed service to Capital Region Catholics.
Catholic cemeteries exist because of our belief in the resurrection of the body, in some new shape or form, at the end of time. The burial of the dead has always been recognized as a religious rite and a corporal work of mercy.
The canon law of the Church states that the Catholic cemetery is a sacred place. A Catholic cemetery is sacred not only because of a blessing or consecration, but also by the sacred function it performs on behalf of the entire Christian community: It holds the bodies, once temples of the Holy Spirit, until the Lord comes again in glory.
The Catholic cemetery serves the Church by spanning the kingdom now present and the kingdom yet to come.