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ACCUSED BOSTON CLERICS
Revised November 21, 2011

This page presents BishopAccountability.org's current tally of 276 accused clerics who worked in the Boston archdiocese. For more information about the priests on our list, please consult the BishopAccountability.org accused priest database. The list below includes clerics who worked their entire careers in Boston, and it also includes clerics who worked in several dioceses, including Boston.

This is a list of accused priests, not a list of guilty or convicted priests. Some of the priests on this list have been sent to jail for sexually abusing minors. Others have denied the charges against them and will never be prosecuted because the statute of limitations has lapsed. In our legal system, an accused person is considered innocent until proven guilty. Most of the priests are accused of offending in the Boston archdiocese. Some are accused of offending elsewhere, but worked in the Boston archdiocese as well.

Some other lists and counts of accused Boston priests are:
- USA Today 11/11/02 list of accused priests: 61 named priests
- Reilly report 7/23/03 count: 237 unnamed priests [PDF p. 19]
- Boston Globe 3/5/03 list of priests removed: 48 named priests
- Boston John Jay 2/26/04 count: 216 unnamed priests: 162 diocesan, 44 order, 10 extern
- Garabedian 1/19/11 list of priests with settlements against them: 117 priests, including 19 newly identified
- Boston archdiocesan list of 8/25/11: 159 archdiocesan priests named; 250 archdiocesan priests counted
- Boston Globe 11/20/11 list: 70 priests not included in the 8/25/11 Boston archdiocesan list [see also the Globe article]

Note that the Boston archdiocesan and Boston Globe lists do not together provide a complete accounting of accused priests who have worked in the Boston archdiocese. The names currently known that are missing from those lists are indicated below with a red >. Those ommitted names currently total 47, but the actual number is certainly higher.

Acres, John H SJ
Ahearn, Kieran T OFM
Ahern, Richard J CSS
Albert, Bro FMS
Angeli, Joseph
Argencourt, Bro Roger G/Odillon SC
Atwater
, John T
Aubut, Charles E

Bacigalupo, Leonard
Bailot, Eugene J
Balcom, Gary E
Barr, Frederick L
Barrett, Robert E
Barry, Richard
Basso, Septimo CS
Bayers
, Sydney H
Beale, Robert P
Beauvais, Leon F
Berthold, George C
Birmingham, Joseph E
Bocciarelli, John CS
Bolduc, Paul J
Bossa, Barry F SAC
Boucher, Clarence R
Boulanger
, Bro Leonard SM
Boulanger
, Raymond SM
Bourque, Real/Ray OMI
Breton, Philip C
Brizzolara, Andrew
Buchette, Anthony L
Bullock, Myron F
Buntel, Richard A
Burgess, Robert
Burns, Robert M
Butler, William L

Callaghan, George J
Carew
, Michael John SVD
Carroll, John P
Cartier, Frederick J Jr
Caverzan, Guido
Chaisson, John C
Charest, Edmund P
Coleman, Joseph K
Collins, Jeremiah J
Connell, John K
Connelly, James E
Conte, Denis A
Cotter, John M
Coughlin, Richard T
Coyle, Charles G SJ
Creighton, Gerald E
Croke, Edmund W
Crowley, Deacon Joseph I
Cumerlato, Eugenio SX
Cummings, William J
Curran, Thomas M
Cuthbert, Bro CFX

> Dagwell, Bro John H CFX
Daly, Robert F
Dawber, Stephen F SJ
De Berardinis, Bro Fidelis/Francis OFM
Dempsey, Thomas F
Dennis, (last name unknown)
Desilets, Paul M CSV
Dever, Gerard V
Dewey,
Charles F
Dewire
, John J
Doherty, Deacon Mark C
Donahue, Sr Margaret R SCN
Donnelly
, Bro George CFX

Donnelly, Thomas D
Dority, John Francis OFM
Dorsey
, Ronald
Drake, Roy A SJ
Duffy, William J SJ
Dunn, John A
Dwyer, Leo V

Fairbairn, Frank E
Farrell, Bro Nolan
Fay, Robert D
Fichtner, Robert C
Finegan, Paul J
Flynn, John H
Foley, James D
Foley, James J
Forry, Thomas P
Foster, Michael Smith
Fowler, Br John CSS
Fratic, Joseph P
Frey, Ross S BS
Frost, Peter J
Fugolo, Joseph CS
Fusoni, Joseph A

Gale, Robert V
Gallagher, John J OSA
Geoghan, John J
Genevive, Frank M OFM
Ghastin, Bro Kenneth OFM
Gillespie, Jerome F
Gillette, Randall/James R CP
Gilpin, Joseph Seminarian
Govoni, Louis J
Graham, Daniel M
Guiney, John E
Guthrie, Frederick L

Hagan, Arthur J
Hanlon, John R
Hickey, Gerald J
Hightower, Paul Seminarian
Hill, Ernest Justin PT
Holmes
, Bro Edward Anthony SSCC
Holsenbach
, James Barron SM
Hurley, Paul W
Hutchinson, James
Hyder, Raymond L

Iguabita-Rodriguez, Kelvin E

Jansonis, Alphonse B
Johnson, Harold J
Johnson, Richard G
Joyce, Donald J OMI

Kanchong, Peter S
Kane, Charles R
Karow, Br Dominic/John Walter OP
Keane, John F
Keefe, Dennis A
Keenan, Bernard J
Keenan, Donald J CP
Kelley, Arnold E
Kelley, Edward T
Kenney, Joseph W
Keohan, Edward M
Kerressey, Bro Ricardo/Richard CFX
Kirchmeyer, Robert W
Knapp
, Robert J
Kossak, Michael J SJ

Labbe, Bro Leo R/Gerald SC
Landry, Leo P CSS
Lane, Bernard J
Lane, John J
Laurano, Anthony J
LaVoie, Victor C
LeBlanc, Kenneth A
Loeffler, Charles M
Lombard, Samuel J
Lyons, John P

> Maguire, Joseph T CSS
Mahan
, Paul J
Maloney, William F
Manning, Paul F
Mary Mark, Sr CSJ
Martin, Jon C
Massaro, Gabriel OFMCap
Matte, Richard O
Mawn, Benedict CP
McAndrews, John Kevin
McAvoy, Sr Mary CSJ
McCabe, George V SJ
McCormick, Richard J SDB
McDonald
, James T
McDonald
, Paul E
McGurrin, Donald J OMI
McInnis, Joseph
McKeon, James T
McLaughlin, John E
McLaughlin, Paul J
McMahon, Benjamin J Jr
McMahon, Gerard T
McManus, Francis J SJ
McPartland, Paul G
McQuade, Richard E
Meffan, Robert V
Mendicoa, John M
Menna, F Dominic
Michael, Bro Edward SM
Michaud, Lawrence SM
Michele, Robert P CSP
Modicowitz/
Modicourtz, Edwin OFMCap
Morgan, William H
Moriarty, Paul J
Morrissette, Robert H
Motherway, Thomas F
Mullin, Jay Michael
Murphy, Alfred M. OSA
Murphy, Charles J
Murphy
, David [J] C
Murphy, Dennis P
Murphy, Francis A
Murphy, Kenneth B

> Ngwumohaike, Anthony
Nugent, Francis E
Nyhan, W James

> O'Brien, Arthur J
O'Donnell
, Terence W SDB
O'Leary
, Arthur P
O'Neill, James W OSFS
O'Neill, William V
O'Sullivan, Eugene M
Ouellette, Lionel P

Papile, Joseph A Deacon
Paquin, Ronald H
Pelletier, Leonard E
Pereira
, Sr Amelia SCN
Pereppadan
, Varrghese

Pezzotti, Mario SX
Picardi
, John M Jr
Plourde, Raymond C
Poitras
, Steven W
Pollard
, Leo SJ
Porter
, James R
Power, James F
Prybis, Raymond A OMI

> Raeihle, Br Dennis SA
Rancourt, Henry SM
Raux, Redmond Michael
Rebeiro, Anthony J
Reilly, Joseph P
Rhodes, Sr Mary Jane SCN
Richard, Lucien J OMI
Riley, Leo T CSS
Riordan
, Brendan P
Robichaud
, James P OMI
Robinson
, Barry
Roche, Allan E
Rondeau, Julian Edward SM
Rosenkranz, George J
Roulier, George OMI
Ryan, Frederick J
Ryer, Robert L
Rynne, Paul P

Scanlan, William J
Shanley, Paul R
Shaughnessy, James C
Shea, Francis S
Shea, William B
Sheehan, Br George SDB
Sherry, Edward F
Sinclair, Roger A
Smyth
, Brendan OPraem
Sokol, Edward OFM
Spagnolia, D George
Spagnolo, Nicholas J CSS
St. Hilaire, Bernard
St. Jean, George OMI
Stanton, Leonard
Sujka, Andrzej OFM
Sullivan, Eugene P
Sullivan, Michael D
Surette, C Melvin
Szymanski, Czeslaw

Tague, Patrick J
Talbot, James F SJ
Thibault, Armand SM
Thomson, J Garret/Gary
Tivnan
, Paul J
Toma, Louis SC
Tourigney, Ernest E
Towner, Robert K
Tully, James J SX
Turcotte, Eugene J OMI
Turnbull
, Robert/John OSA

Vasaturo, Anthony J
Veneto, Joseph P

> Walker, Harry Dean
Walsh
, John J OMI
Walsh
, Martin J Jr
Walsh, William M
Ward, Robert A
Welsh, Joseph L
White, John J/Jack
White, Paul D
Wilson, James L
Wilson, Dozia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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