The Springfield Diocese’s announcement that it may re-open the tornado-damaged cathedral high school at a new location — and combine the students with those from Holyoke Catholic — has raised ire among local officials.

Springfield Mayor Dominic Sarno says the city stood by the diocese after the 2011 tornado by offering public and financial support, including paying to transport students to a temporary school in Wilbraham. But he says the understanding was always that the school would come back to its old location on Surrey Road in East Forest Park.

“So all these other spots that are being looked really come out of the blue,” Sarno says.

Sarno says although Cathedral is a private school — where his own daughters attend — it is a real-estate anchor for the city.

“And I have to question some of the people that are around the bishop right now. But I’m going to continue to make sure that I review all my options and recourse,” says Sarno. “We’ve played fair and square. We’ve helped Cathedral out in anything they’ve needed. And I am hopeful once this so-called committee reviews that they make a decision that it should be rendered on Surrey Row.”

Congressman Richard Neal also says he expected Cathedral to rebuild at Surrey Road when he helped secure federal emergency funding after the tornado.

Bishop Mitchell Rozanski says the diocese will conduct a demographic study before deciding where to put the new school.