Syracuse Diocese Lists Accused Priests with Oneida County Ties

By Greg Mason
Utica Observer Dispatch
December 6, 2018

https://www.uticaod.com/news/20181206/syracuse-diocese-lists-accused-priests-with-oneida-county-ties

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse has confirmed 41 former clergy members accused of child sex abuse had ties to parishes in Oneida County at one time or another.

The diocese earlier this week released a list of 57 clergy members in total who were accused of child sex abuse. Of the 57, 37 were tied to allegations the diocese found credible. Only 19 of the 57 are still alive; there is no priest in active ministry in the diocese with a credible complaint of child sexual abuse, according to the diocese.

The clergy members on the lists are either dead, removed from ministry, dismissed from the clerical state or laicized.

To be removed from ministry is to remain a priest in spirit, though the person cannot function, identify themself or act as a priest or wear clerical attire. Those dismissed were released from the clerical state and are no longer affiliated with the diocese. Those laicized voluntarilty were dispensed from clerical obligations and also have no ties to the diocese, according to the diocese.

A diocese spokeswoman said the diocese could not provide the parishes each clergy member has been affiliated with at this time. Using newspaper archives and online records, the Observer-Dispatch has identified parishes where a number of the priests once served in the Oneida County area.

Here is the list of those with confirmed ties in Oneida County:

Priests permanently removed from ministry in accordance with the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People (including those who died prior to the completion of their canonical process):

? Felix R. Colosimo (St. Peter’s in North Utica, St. Leo’s in Holland Patent, St. Anthony of Padua in East Utica and Our Lady of the Rosary in New Hartford; deceased)

? Edmund J. Durr (removed from ministry)

? Thomas F. Guyder (St. Agnes Church in Utica; deceased)

? John F. Harrold (dismissed from clerical state)

? James C. Hayes (removed from ministry)

? Donald J. Hebert (St. Joseph and St. Patrick Church in Utica, St. Luke’s Memorial Hospital chaplain, St. Ann’s Church in Hinckley and St. George’s Roman Catholic Church in Utica; removed from ministry)

? David J. Jutton (St. Luke’s Memorial Hospital chaplain, Notre Dame High School chaplain; deceased)

? Robert J. Kloster (St. Leo’s Church in Holland Patent, St. Ann’s Church in Hinckley, Blessed Sacrament Church in Utica, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Utica chaplain, St. John’s Church in Utica, St. Anthony of Padua Church in Utica, St. Therese Catholic Church in Munnsville, St. Peter’s Church in Utica and Our Lady of the Rosary in New Hartford; removed from ministry)

? C. Vincent Lane Jr. (removed from ministry)

? William A. Lorenz (former principal, Notre Dame High School; St. Joseph’s Church in Oneida; removed from ministry)

? Edward C. “Ted” Madore (St. John the Baptist in Rome; laicized)

? George F. Mattice Jr. (removed from ministry)

? Chester A. Misercola (Our Lady of the Rosary in New Hartford, St. Anthony of Padua in Utica; removed from ministry)

? Robert A. Ours (St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Utica, in residence; removed from ministry)

? Joseph A. Pace (laicized)

? David A. Pichette (dismissed from the clerical state)

? Albert J. Proud (Church of the Annunciation in Clark Mills; removed from ministry)

? James A. Quinn (removed from ministry)

? James F. Quinn (St. Agnes Church in Utica; deceased)

? H. Charles Sewall (former principal, Notre Dame High School; vicar for the eastern region of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse; deceased)

? Jerome F. Weber (Our Lady of Lourdes in Utica; removed from ministry)

Priests with credible allegations that have died, voluntarily left the priesthood or resigned prior to the implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People in 2002:

? Daniel W. Casey Jr. (St. John’s Catholic Church; deceased)

? Donald J. Crosby (Utica Catholic Academy principal; deceased)

? Edward X. Kieley (deceased)

? Steven J. Litz Jr. (St. John the Evangelist in New Hartford; deceased)

Priests accused of sexual abuse of a minor after their deaths and after the implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People:

? Thomas S. Bayley (deceased)

? Robert F. Bogan (Church of the Annunciation in New York Mills; deceased)

? Roger A. Bowen (St. Anthony of Padua in Chadwicks; deceased)

? John H. Donovan (deceased)

? Luke V. Gallagher (St. Francis de Sales Church in Utica; deceased)

? Bernard A. Garstka (Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Utica; deceased)

? Donald L. Gorman (deceased)

? Edgar M. Holihan (deceased)

? Edward P. Humphrey (deceased)

? William J. Lynch (deceased)

? John A. McCarthy (deceased)

? William J. Morris (deceased)

? Thomas E. Neary Jr. (St. John the Evangelist in New Hartford; deceased)

? Thomas M. Powell (deceased)

? Martin J. Tracy (deceased)

? David J. Walker (deceased)

Contact reporter Greg Mason at 315-792-5074 or follow him on Twitter (@OD_Mason).