The Rev. Paul A. Brigandi, photographed outside St. Joseph's Church in Oswego on March 7, 1995, was assigned there in 1991.

He previously served at St. Augustine's in Baldwinsville, starting in 1989.

He was a Syracuse native and served as pastor of Our Lady of Pompei in Syracuse, St. Mary in Jamesville and St. Mary of the Assumption in Binghamton, St. Bartholomew in Norwich and St. Anthony of Padua in Endicott.

Ordained: Feb. 2, 1954

Status: Brigandi was permanently removed from the ministry prior to his death, according to church officials.

The Rev. John Broderick was convicted of one misdemeanor charge of child endangerment in 2009. He was acquitted of two more felony charges of inappropriate sexual contact with children.

He was arrested in Massena in 2008.

State troopers accused him of engaging in inappropriate sexual contact the year before with at least four children ages 5 to 11, according to The Post-Standard's archives.

Broderick said the incident was not sexual, nothing more than horseplay and the accusations sprang from a vendetta against him by the father of the alleged victims.

Ordained: Oct. 7, 1989

Status: Removed from ministry.  He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People  

Two families settled lawsuits with the Syracuse diocese for nearly half a million dollars in 1998 over allegations that Casey abused three boys in the 1980s. Casey subsequently resigned from the priesthood. He died in 2000.

Ordained: 1975

Served: Blessed Sacrament (Johnson City), St. Mary (Cortland), Cortland County Jail, St. Paul (Oswego), St. John (Utica), St. Monica (Rochester)

Felix Colosimo was removed from priesthood by the Syracuse diocese in 2014 after a man accused him of sexually abusing him as a teenager from 1978 through 1990. The diocese confirmed that credible allegations had been made against the priest.

Ordained: 1965

Served: St. John the Baptist (Rome), Our Lady of Pompeii (Syracuse), St. Bartholomew (Norwich), St. Peter (Utica), St. Leo (Holland). 

Ordained: May 18. 1963

Status: Crosby was accused by at least one teen-aged girl of sexual abuse in 1974. The girl said she reported the abuse at the time to Monsignor Charles Sewall, who years later admitted to sexual abuse of his own. The diocese had no records of any misdeeds by Crosby.

Crosby left the priesthood in 1975 and became a guidance counselor at Soule Road Middle School in Liverpool. He retired in 2003 after the district learned of the allegations and threatened to fire him. 

Crosby died in 2004, shortly after he retired from Soule Road. 

Ordained: Jan. 1, 1927

Status: He is among 20 priests in the Syracuse Diocese who were dead at the time an allegation of abuse was reported. He faced no claims while alive. Donovan had a single claim made against him.  

Ordained: May 1, 1965

Status: Removed from ministry.  He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.

Assignments: In 1991, Durr requested time to renew his faith after six years as pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Chittenango, according to The Post-Standard archives. He had been a priest for 25 years.

Durr was ordained in 1965 and taught religious studies and public speaking at Seton High School in Endicott for eight years. He then taught at Bishop Cunningham, formerly Oswego Catholic High School, for one year.

He spent the next seven years teaching at Bishop Ludden High School in Syracuse. In 1981, he was named pastor of St. Patrick;s Church in Forestport and St. Mary of the Snows Church in Otter Lake, Oneida County.

Five victims publicly accused Francis Furfaro of child sex abuse during his 40 years as pastor of St. Joseph Church in Oswego. The diocese paid one of the victims $75,000 to settle claims in 1999. Furfaro retired in the 1991 but was officially removed from ministry by the diocese in 2002. He served on boards for the Oswego school district and SUNY Oswego. Church officials say he is deceased.

Ordained: 1941

Assignments: Our Lady of Pompeii (Syracuse), St. Joseph (Oswego), Oswego County Jail, St. Louis (Oswego)

Ordained: June 12, 1915

Status: He is among 20 priests in the Syracuse Diocese who were dead at the time an allegation of abuse was reported. He faced no claims while alive. 

Ordained: May 6, 1948

Status: He is among 20 priests in the Syracuse Diocese who were dead at the time an allegation of abuse was reported. He faced no claims while alive.  

Ordained: June 5, 1954

Status: He is among 20 priests in the Syracuse Diocese who were dead at the time an allegation of abuse was reported. He faced no claims while alive.   

Ordained: May 18, 1940

Status: Guyder died in 2009. He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.

Assignments: Guyder was a familiar figure in the western suburbs of Syracuse for almost 30 years. He retired in 1989 from St. Joseph's Church in Camillus. The parish center was formally dedicated and named in his honor. His portrait was placed in the foyer. 

He served at St. Mary's on the Lake in Skaneateles, Our Lady of Pompei in Syracuse, St. Agnes in Utica, St. Patrick's and St. John the Evangelist in Syracuse, and St. Theresa's in New Berlin, before starting his service at the "old" St. Joseph's church in the village of Camillus. 

John Harrold was arrested in 1983 for sending child pornography through the mail. The charges were dropped after he agreed to enter a treatment center in New Mexico. He never returned to work for the Syracuse diocese.

For a few years, he worked at the treatment center, then moved on. The diocese asked him to resign as priest in 1997 after coming across his name in personnel files. He was last known living in California. 

Ordained: Sept. 8, 1973

Status:  He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. He was dismissed from the Roman Catholic Church and can no longer serve as a priest.

Assignments: St. Mary of the Assumption (Rome), St. Peter (Rome), St. Catherine (Binghamton), Catholic Charities of Broome County, Family Life Bureau (Broome County), St. Mary (Oswego).

Ordained: May 26, 1934

Status: He is among 20 priests in the Syracuse Diocese who were dead at the time an allegation of abuse was reported. He faced no claims while alive. Hattala was among those priests who had a single claim made against him. 

Assignments: Hattala, raised in Syracuse, served in churches from Baldwinsville to Binghamton before he died in 1988. He was assigned to St. Stephen (Syracuse), Immaculate Conception (Fulton), St. Mary's (Baldwinsville) and St. Anne's (Binghamton).

The diocese removed Hayes from his position as Community General Hospital Chaplain in 2002 after three victims filed lawsuits. The diocese confirmed that Hayes remained active after a person came forward about abuse more than a decade prior.

Ordained: 1965

Assignments: Catholic Central High School (Binghamton), Oswego Catholic High School, St. Anne and St. John (North Bay), St. John the Baptist (Syracuse), Holy Family (Fulton), Our Lady of Good Counsel (Warners).

Donald Hebert told The Post-Standard in 1990 that he checked himself into St. Luke's Institute in Maryland, a Catholic psychiatric hospital, after he fondled a boy at an overnight camp in Parish. The diocese paid for counseling for the boy and his family declined to press charges.

Ordained: 1981

Status:  He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.   

Assignments: St. John the Baptist (Syracuse), Most Holy Rosary (Syracuse), St. Luke (Utica), St. George (Utica), St. Joseph and St. Patrick (Utica), Army National Guard chaplain.

Ordained: May 17, 1969

Status:  He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. He died in 2004.

Assignments Heizman graduated Onondaga Central and became priest in 1969. His posts included time as principal of both Bishop Grimes High School in East Syracuse and Bishop Cunningham High School in Oswego. 

He was assigned to  St. Lucy's (Syracuse), Our Lady of Pompeii (Syracuse), Immaculate Conception (Fayetteville), St. Mary's (Mexico) and St. Matthew's (East Syracuse).

Heizman was also chaplain to the DeWitt Police Department and Crouse Hospital. 

Ordained: June 5, 1943

Status: He is among 20 priests in the Syracuse Diocese who were dead at the time an allegation of abuse was reported. He faced no claims while alive. Holihan was among the priests who had a single claim of abuse against him.  

Assignments: Holihan served in a number of Central New York parishes in his 44 years as priest. He attended St. Patrick's High School and spent his final decade at a church in Vestal.

He served at St. Charles Borromeo (Geddes), St. John the Evangelist (Syracuse), St. Francis de Sales (Utica), St. Mary's (Rome), Our Lady of Good Counsel (Endicott), St. Joseph's (LaFayette) and Our Lady of Sorrows (Vestal).

Ordained: June 15, 1935

Status: He is among 20 priests who were dead at the time an allegation of abuse was reported and faced no claims while alive. Humphrey had a single claim made against him. 

Assignments: Humphrey, of Binghamton, served primarily in Southern Tier churches during his 42 years as priest. He served as chaplain of Binghamton Psychiatric Center. He also was assigned to St. Anthony of Padua (Chadwicks), St. James (Johnson City) and St. Paul's (Binghamton).

Thomas Keating was accused of groping, molesting and abusing three sisters and another girl in the 1980s at St. Mary's Church in Cortland. The diocese removed Keating in 2004.

Ordained: 1966

Assignments: Our Lady of Angels (Endwell), St. Mary (Cortland), Our Lady of Good Counsel (Endicott), Seton Catholic High School (Endicott), St. James (Johnson City), Cortland County Jail, Most Holy Rosary (Maine, N.Y.)

Ordained: April 4, 1925

Status: Kieley was among five priests in the Syracuse Diocese who faced credible allegations of abuse, but who died or voluntarily left the priesthood prior to the implementation of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. He is deceased.

Ordained: March 19, 1965

Status:  He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. Kloster is deceased. 

 

Ordained: Feb. 2, 1961

Status: He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. 

Ordained: March 11, 1965

Status: Litz was among five priests in the Syracuse Diocese who faced credible allegations of abuse, but who died or voluntarily left the priesthood prior to the implementation of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. Litz is deceased. 

Ordained: 1963

Status:  He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.   

Assignments: St. James (Syracuse), St. Andrew the Apostle (Syracuse), St. Peter (Utica), St. Mary (Oswego), St. Paul (Oswego), Oswego Catholic High School, St. Anne (Whitesboro), Notre Dame High School principal (Utica), Our Lady of Lourdes (Utica)

Ordained: May 26, 1934

Status: He is among 20 priests who were dead at the time an allegation of abuse was reported and faced no claims while alive. Lynch had a single claim made against him.  

Lynch died in 1994 at age 88. The Syracuse native attended Christian Brothers Academy.

Assignments: He worked at numerous parishes including St. Leo in Tully, Most Holy Rosary in Syracuse and St. Stephen's in Phoenix.

Ordained: May 12, 1973

Status:  He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. 

Ordained: May 16, 1964

Status:  He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.

A victim sued Chester Misercola in 2002, alleging he sexually abused him when he was an altar boy in the 1990s. Misercola retired, citing a heart attack, in 1998. 

The diocese confirmed he was removed from ministry in 2002, years after receiving an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor. Misercola was one of at least four priests who lived at Tommy Coyne House in Syracuse in 2016, when the diocese closed the facility.

Ordained: 1964

Assignments: Our Lady of the Rosary (New Hartford), St. Anthony of Padua (Utica), St. Anthony (Cortland), Immaculate Conception (Fulton), St. Joseph (Oswego), Bishop Cunningham Catholic High School (Oswego), St. Peter (Oswego), St. John the Evangelist (Oswego)

Ordained: June 21, 1914

Status: He is among 20 priests who were dead at the time an allegation of abuse was reported and faced no claims while alive. Morris had a single claim made against him.  

Ordained: Feb. 2, 1957

Status: He is among 20 priests who were dead at the time an allegation of abuse was reported. He faced no claims while alive. Morse had a single claim made against him.  

Assignments: John "Jack" Morse was a lifelong Syracuse resident who died in 1990 at age 58. He worked at several parishes including St. Mary's of the Lake in Skaneateles, St. Ann's and St. James in Syracuse, and St. Michael's in Central Square.

He was a graduate of Christian Brothers Academy in Syracuse and St. Bernard's seminary in Rochester.

Robert Ours in 2014 admitted to viewing child pornography on a nun's office computer at a home for retired priests. He pleaded guilty to six child pornography charges and was sentenced to 10 years on probation. In 2017, a victim said in a lawsuit that Ours abused him as a child when the priest was a deacon.

Ordained: 1980

Assignments: St. Peter (Utica), St. Vincent de Paul (Binghamton), St. John the Evangelist (Binghamton), Our Lady of Good Counsel (Endicott), Seton Catholic Central High School (Binghamton), St. Patrick (Binghamton), St. Rita (Chenango Forks), St. Christopher (Binghamton), St. Joseph (Endicott)

Ordained: June 4, 1988

Status: He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.   

In 2011, Daniel Franz, of Kentucky, held a press conference in front of the Syracuse Roman Catholic Diocese to accuse David Pichette, a former priest, of abusing him.

The victim said the abuse happened in 1981 at Nazareth Farm, a church-run camp in West Virginia. Franz was 17 at the time.

Pichette was dismissed as a priest in 2005, according to The Post-Standard archives.

Ordained: May 20, 1967

Status: He was dismissed from the clerical state. He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.  

Assignments: St. Patrick in Truxton, Bishop Ludden High School in Syracuse, Seton Catholic High School in Binghamton, Blessed Sacrament in Johnson City, St. Margaret in Mattydale, St. Patrick in Binghamton, St. Ambrose in Endicott and Nazareth Farm in Center Point, W.Va.

Ordained: May 12, 1973

Status: He is among 20 priests who were dead at the time an allegation of abuse was reported and faced no claims while alive. Powell had a single claim made against him.  

In 2002, two victims reported to the diocese that Albert Proud molested them, one in the 1970s. The diocese removed Proud from ministry and sent him to St. Luke Institute for treatment while it investigated the claims. 

Ordained: 1968

Assignments: Faculty House (Utica), St. John the Evangelist (Oswego), Immaculate Conception (Fulton), Christ the King (Liverpool), St. Daniel (Syracuse), Bishop Ludden High School, St. Brigid and St. Joseph (Syracuse), St. Patrick (Jordan), Church of the Annunciation (Clark Mills)

Ordained: June 10, 1911

Status: He is among 20 priests who were dead at the time an allegation of abuse was reported and faced no claims while alive.

Ordained: May 20, 1967

Status: He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.  

Assignments:  He taught religion at Seton Catholic Central High School in Binghamton in the 1970s and 1980s. He was also chaplain for the deaf for the Diocese of Syracuse and pastor at St. Patrick's Church in Binghamton and Christ the King in Endwell.

The Rev. James F. Quinn was accused in a lawsuit of sexually abusing and exploiting a boy from 1963 to 1970. At the time, he was assistant pastor of St. Agnes Church in Utica. The church also operated a grammar school, which the boy attended. The abuse began when the boy was 13, the suit said.

A judge said the statute of limitations had expired when the lawsuit was filed in 2003. When he was accused, Quinn was director of the Office of Vocation Promotion, where his job was to recruit candidates for the priesthood.

The church cleared Quinn in 2004, according to The Post-Standard's archives.

Another man accused Quinn of raping him in the rectory of St. Ann's Church in Manlius during a rehearsal for his confirmation in 1989.  The diocese was unable to determine whether the allegation was credible because Quinn had died a year earlier.

Ordained: May 24, 1958

Status: He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. Quinn died in 2013 at the age of 80.

Assignments: St. John the Baptist, Syracuse, temporary assistant pastor, June 5, 1958; St. Patrick Church, Syracuse, assistant pastor, Aug. 27, 1958; St. Agnes Church, Utica, assistant pastor, Sept. 16, 1959; St. Paul Church, Rome, assistant pastor, Sept. 17, 1971; St. Theresa Church, Munnsville, assistant pastor; St. Paul Church, Whitesboro, pastor, July 1, 1978; St. James Church, Syracuse, pastor, July 1, 1988; Director of Vocation Promotion; in residence at St. Ann Church, Manlius, July 1, 1994.

 

Ordained: May 15, 1947

Status: He is among 20 priests who were dead at the time an allegation of abuse was reported and faced no claims while alive. Sammons had a single claim made against him.  

The Syracuse diocese settled a lawsuit with a victim of Charles Sewall in 1988. Additional victims sued in the 2000s. The abuse was alleged to have occurred in 1988, according to diocesan officials. Sewall was one of at least four priests who lived at Tommy Coyne House in Syracuse in 2016, when the diocese closed the facility. Sewall is now deceased. 

Ordained: 1960

Assignments: Our Lady of the Rosary (New Hartford), Utica Catholic Academy, Faculty House (Utica), Notre Dame High School (Utica), Our Lady of Lourdes (Utica)

Ordained: July 15, 1917

Status: Sinnott was among five priests in the Syracuse Diocese who faced credible allegations of abuse, but who died or voluntarily left the priesthood prior to the implementation of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. He is deceased.

Ordained: May 29, 1971

Status: Slavetskas was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.  He died in 2015 at age 69.

Assignments: Slavetskas, of Binghamton, worked at St. Mary's, Cortland; Blessed Sacrament, Johnson City; St. Ann's and St. Paul's, Binghamton; St. Daniels and Most Holy Rosary, Syracuse; Unity Acres (Home for Homeless Men) Orwell; and St. John the Baptist, Syracuse, according to his obituary.

Ordained: Jan. 1, 1927

Status: He is among 20 priests who were dead at the time an allegation of abuse was reported and faced no claims while alive.

Ordained: July 15, 1962

Status: He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed from ministry as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.      

Assignments: Wagner was appointed in 1996 as pastor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Clay, where he served for roughly a decade. Before that, he was chaplain and priest counselor at Onondaga Community College and parochial vicar at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Most Holy Rosary and Our Lady of Pompei churches.

Wagner is a Syracuse native who attended St. John the Baptist School for elementary and secondary education, according to newspaper archives. He studied at St. Andrew's in Rochester, Niagara University, North American College in Rome and Our Lady of the Angels, Niagara. Wagner earned a master's degree in higher education from Syracuse University.

Ordained: Feb. 2, 1959

Status: He is among 20 priests who were dead at the time an allegation of abuse was reported and faced no claims while alive. Walker had a single claim made against him.  

Weber, 89, of Utica, dismissed the accusation  against him during a brief telephone interview. He declined to discuss the details.

"If there was anything to it, you would have heard about it years ago,'' Weber said.

Weber said he retired at age 70. The diocese later removed him from the ministry "a few years ago,'' he said. 

Ordained: May 19, 1956

Status: He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. 

Assignments: Weber, a Utica native, was first assigned to St. John the Evangelist Church in Camden as an assistant pastor in 1956, shortly after his ordination.  He served in several parishes throughout the diocese before retiring.

Weber is a scholar of early music, including Catholic chant, and the author of several articles and book-length discographies. 

Ordained: May 1, 1965

Status: He was among 32 priests in the diocese who were removed as part of the 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. 

Assignments: According to his obituary, Zedar was ordained in the Diocese of Syracuse. In later years, he worked in parishes in Florida. He was the pastor at San Antonio Catholic Church in Port Charlotte,  Fla., from 1993 until his retirement in 2006. He died in 2009.

The diocese confirmed in 2003 it had removed John Zeder from ministry after receiving a complaint from a woman who claimed he raped her at St. Mary Church in Cortland in the 1970s and 1980s.

Zeder was one of at least four priests who lived at Tommy Coyne House in Syracuse in 2016, when the diocese closed the facility. The Syracuse Diocese said Zeder is now deceased.

Ordained: 1954

Assignments: St. Ambrose (Endicott), Holy Rosary (Maine, N.Y.), Seton High School (Endicott), St. Patrick (Chittenango), St. Mary (Cortland), St. Malachy (Sherburne), St. Ann (Parish).