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Countries with Bishops Who Have Either Abused or Resigned Because of Complicity

Richard Sipe
April 29, 2013 http://www.awrsipe.com/countries_with_confirmed_abuse.htm

COUNTRY BISHOP Archdiocese/Diocese REMARKS
Argentina Edgardo Storni, 
Santa Fe de los Angeles Archbishop
Ordinary, sentenced to 8 years in prison, D. ‘12
Australia Ronald Mulkearns
Auxiliary
Ballarat, Resigned, ’97. Minor boys
Austria Hans Cardinal Groer
Cardinal, Vienna
Resigned ’95.  D. ’11.  Minor boys
Austria Kurt Krenn
Ordinary, Sankt Polten
Sankt Polten, resigned ’04.  complicity
Belgium Roger Vangheleuwe
Ordinary, Bruges
Resigned, ’10.  Minor boys
Benin Richard Burke (Irish)
Archbishop
Resigned ’10.  Minor boys
Bolivia      
Brazil      
Canada Hubert O’Connor
Ordinary, Prince George BC,
O.M.I.
Resigned ’91. Prosecuted. Minor girls
  John Knight
Auxiliary, Toronto
Resigned ’00.  Minor girls
Canada Raymond Lacey
Ordinary, Antigonish, NS
Laicized ’12.  Child pornography.  Prosecuted
Chile Fernando Jose Cox
Ordinary, Archbishop of La Serena, Chile
Consecrated 1975, resigned 1997, age 63
Chile Marco Ordenes Fernandez
Ordinary of Iquique, Chile
Consecrated 2006, resigned 2012 at age 47.
Colombia      
Czech Republic      
Congo      
Costa Rica      
Croatia      
England      
France      
Germany Franziscus Eisenbach
Auxiliary, Mainz
Resigned ’02.  Adult woman
Honduras      
Ireland Eamon Casey
Ordinary, Galway
Resigned ’92.  Adult woman.
Ireland Brendan Cumiskey
Ordinary, Ferns
Resigned ’02.  Complicity
Ireland John Magee
Ordinary, Cloyne
Resigned ’12.  Coverup
Ireland James Moriarity   Resigned ’09.  Cover up
Ireland Donal Murray   Resigned ’09. Cover up
Israel Kamal Bathish
Jerusalemn
Resigned.  Not confirmed
Italy      
Kenya Cornelius Schilders   Removed ’09.  Retired in Holland
Malta      
Mexico      
Nicaragua      
Nigeria      
Norway Georg Mueller
Ordinary, Oslo
Resigned ’09. Minor boys
Paraguay Fernando Lugo
Ordinary, San Pedro
Resigned 2005, Laicized 2008.  Minor girl
Peru      
Pilippines      
Poland Julian Paetz   Resigned ’02. Minor boys
Portugal Luis Azevedo   Resigned ’13. Minor boys
Scotland Keith Cardinal O’Brien   Resigned ’13.  Minor boys
Scotland Roderick Wright   Resigned ’96.  Adult woman
South Africa Reginald Cawcutt   Resigned ’02.  Adult males
Sweden Anders Arborelius   Resigned ’10.  Minor boys
Switzerland Hans Vogel   Resigned ’95. Adult woman
Tanzania      
United States Juan Arzube   Retired’93. D. ’07.  Minor males
United States Joseph Cardinal Bernardin   Died ’96.  Never confirmed
United States Michael Bransfield   Accused in ’12.  Not confirmed
United States Robert Brom   Minor male.  Paid settlement to accuser
United States Tod Brown   Unconfirmed
United States Paul Dudley   D. ’06.  Not confirmed
United States Thomas Dupre   Resigned ’04. Minor boys
United States Joseph Ferrario   Resigned ’93. D. ’03. Minor boys
United States Joseph Gelineau   Resigned ’97.  Adult males
United States Michael Green   Resigned ’73. D. ’84. Minor boys
United States Joseph Hart   Resigned ’01. Minor boys
United States Robert Lynch   Accused, adult male.
United States Thomas Lyons   D. ’88. Minor boys
United States Roger Cardinal Mahony   Retired ’11. Cover-up
United States Eugene Marino   Resigned ’90. D. ’00.  Adult woman
United States Theodore Cardinal McCarrick   Retired ’06.  Seminarians.  Paid settlement
United States James McCarthy   Resigned ’02.  Adult woman
United States George Murray   Rumors.  Not confirmed
United States Anthony O’Connell   Resigned ’02. D. 12. Minor boys
United States James Rausch   D. ’81. Adult males
United States George Reuger   Retired ’05.  Not confirmed
United States Daniel Ryan   Resigned ’99.  Minor boys
United States Robert Sanchez   Resigned ’93.  Adult women
United States William Skylstad   Retired ’12  Rumors never confirmed
United States Lawrence Soens   Resigned ’98.  Minor boys
United States Joseph Sullivan   D. ’82.  Minor boys
United States James Sullivan   Resigned ’02. D. 06. Rumors only
United States Keith Symons   Resigned ’98. Minor boys
United States Rembert Weakland   Resigned ’02. Adult male
United States Christopher Weldon   Resiged ’77. D. ’99.  Not confirmed
United States Lawrence Welsh   Resigned ’90. D. 99. Adult males
United States Patrick Zeimann   Resigned ’99.  D. ’12. Minor & adult males
       

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