‘credibly Accused’: Complete List of Priests Named by the Archdiocese of Hartford
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Altermatt, Gregory – Ordination 3/27/1976 Assistant Pastor, Incarnation, Wethersfield Assistant Pastor, St. Timothy, West Hartford Assistant Pastor, St. Ann, Waterbury Chaplain, St. Mary Hospital, Waterbury In residence, Our Lady of Victory, West Haven Chaplain, St. Raphael Hospital, New Haven Removed from ministry, 2/3/2012 A civil case is pending Buckley, Joseph – Ordination 5/21/1932 Assistant Pastor, St. Vincent, East Haven Assistant Pastor, St. Agnes, Niantic Pastor, St. Therese, Stony Creek (Branford) Administrator, St. Mary, Newington Pastor, St. Mary, Newington Retired 5/14/1970 Died in 1975 before the single claim against him was received in 2003.
Bzdyra, Stephen – Ordination 11/10/1979 Assistant Pastor, St. Stanislaus, Meriden Co-Pastor, St. Francis, New Haven Co-Pastor St. George, Guilford Temp. Administrator, St. Joseph, Suffield Assistant, St. Mary, Milford Assistant, St. Rita, Hamden Pastor, SS Peter & Paul Wallingford Chaplain, Cheshire Correctional Institute Pastor, St. Hedwig, Union City (Residence) Administrator, St. Stanislaus, Waterbury Chaplain, Cheshire Correctional Institute (continued), while in residence, St. Hedwig, Union City Temporary Administrator, St. Margaret Waterbury Pastor, St. Augustine, Seymour Removed from ministry, 7/8/2010 Laicized 5/4/2018
Clarkin, Herbert – Ordination 5/7/1959 Assistant Pastor, St. Michael, Beacon Falls Assistant Pastor, St Paul, Glastonbury Faculty, East Catholic High School, Manchester In residence, Mt. St. Joseph Academy, West Hartford Assistant Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Waterbury Pastor, St. Bernard, Tariffville Chaplain, with ministry restricted exclusively to St. Mary Home, West Hartford Removed from ministry, subsequent to retirement, 4/29/2002 Died 12/29/2010
Assistant Pastor, St. Michael, Waterville Assistant Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Hartford Assistant Pastor, St. Bridget, CheshireAssistant Pastor, Our Lady of Pompeii, East Haven Assistant Pastor, St. Mary, Derby Temp. Assistant, St. George, GuilfordAssistant Pastor, St. George Guilford Assistant Pastor, St. Francis, Torrington Pastor, St. Francis, Torrington Pastor Emeritus, and assisting in parishes Temp. Administrator, Ascension, Hamden Removed from ministry, 6/11/2002 Sentenced to a life of “prayer and penance” by the Holy See in Rome, 10/21/2015 Died 8/11/2016 Doyle, Robert – Ordination 5/30/1935 Assistant Pastor, St Peter, Hartford Associate Superintendent, Diocesan Office of Schools Superintendent of Schools Pastor, St. Augustine, Hartford Pastor, Sacred Heart, Wethersfield Died 12/18/1975 before the single claim against him was received in 2009 Ferguson, Ivan – Ordination 5/6/1970 Auxiliary Priest of the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles in an Apostolic Vicariate in the Diocese of St. Joseph of the Amazon, Peru Faculty, Northwest Catholic High School In residence, St. Bernard, Tariffville Incardinated (became a priest of the Archdiocese of Hartford), 2/9/1979 Assistant Pastor, St. Mary, Derby Assistant Pastor, St. Matthew, Forestville Chaplain, Hartford Hospital; in residence at St. Lawrence O’Toole, Hartford Removed from ministry, 3/4/1993 Died 12/16/2002 Foley, Stephen – Ordination 5/4/1967 Assistant Pastor, Christ the King, Bloomfield Assistant Pastor, St. Robert Bellarmine, Windsor Locks Assistant Pastor, St. Timothy, West Hartford Pastor, St. Dunstan, Glastonbury Removed from ministry, 8/18/1993 Laicized 4/29/2016 Glynn, Thomas – Ordination 6/29/1938 Assistant Pastor, Sacred Heart, Wethersfield Assistant Pastor, Corpus Christi, Wethersfield Chaplain, United States Navy, Instructor, Mt. St. Joseph Academy, West Hartford Chaplain, House of Good Shepherd, Hartford Pastor, St. Boniface, New Haven Pastor, St. Matthew, Forestville Administrator, Holy Trinity, Wallingford Pastor, Holy Trinity, Wallingford Administrator, St. Clare, East Haven Pastor, St. Clare, East Haven Pastor Emeritus, St. Joseph, Meriden Pastor Emeritus, assisting in various parishes Retired, 11/1/1987 Died 1/25/1993 Gotta, Paul – Ordination 5/20/2006 Temp. Assistant, St. Margaret, Madison Assistant Pastor, St. John the Evangelist, Watertown Part-time Chaplain, Sacred Heart High School, Waterbury Assistant Pastor, St. Rita, Hamden Temp. Administrator, St. Rita, Hamden Assistant Pastor, St. Rita, Hamden Sacramental Minister, SCSU, New Haven Administrator, St. Catherine, Broad Brook/St. Philip E. Windsor Pastor, St. Francis of Assisi, Naugatuck – in addition to continuing as Administrator for St. Catherine, Broad Brook/St. Philip E. Windsor Removed from ministry, 7/12/2013 A canonical process is underway Graham, John – Ordination 12/8/1931 Assistant Pastor, St. Augustine, South Glastonbury Assistant Pastor, St. Anthony, Hartford Assistant Pastor, St. Joseph, Danbury On Leave, One Year Assistant Pastor, St. Patrick, Thompsonville Assistant Pastor, St. Ann, Hamden Pastor, St. Augustine, South Glastonbury Administrator, St. Bernadette, New Haven, in residence at SS. Peter and Paul, Waterbury Resigned Pastorate Assistant Pastor, Ss. Peter and Paul, Waterbury Retired, 1974 Died 12/11/1983 before the single claim against him was received in 2003 Hussey, Philip – Ordination 5/26/1938 Assistant Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Waterbury Assistant Pastor, St. Lawrence O’Toole, Hartford Pastor, St. Bartholomew, Manchester Died 1/17/1978 before the claims against him were received Hyland, Edward – Ordination 5/4/1967 Temp. Chaplain, Hartford, Hospital Assistant Pastor, St. Joseph, Bristol Assistant Pastor, St. Therese, North Haven Chaplain, Hospital of St. Raphael, New Haven Appointed Coordinator of the Hospital Apostolate Co-Pastor, St, Francis, Naugatuck Temp. Assistant Pastor Holy Trinity, Wallingford Temp. Assistant Pastor St. Joseph, Bristol Co-Pastor, St. Gabriel, Windsor Pastor, SS. Peter & Paul, Waterbury Removed from ministry, 7/26/2002 Laicized 4/29/2016 Lacy, Joseph – Ordination 3/19/1938 Assistant Pastor, St. Ann, New Britain Chaplain, United States Army Student in Rome Chaplain, St. Agnes Home, West Hartford Pastor, St. Michael, Hartford Chancellor Administrator, St. Luke, Hartford Pastor, St. Luke, Hartford Pastor Emeritus, St. Luke, Hartford Retired, 11/1/1987 Died 5/18/1990 before any claims against him were received Ladamus, Robert – Ordination 5/23/1970 Assistant Pastor, St. Francis Xavier, Waterbury Assistant Pastor, Our Lady of Victory, West Haven Assistant Pastor, St. John Vianney, West Haven Assistant Pastor, St. Mary, Milford Temp. Administrator, Christ the Redeemer, Milford Pastor, Christ the Redeemer, Milford Resigned Pastorate, Christ the Redeemer, Milford Unassigned for health reasons Retired 7/1/1998 before any claims against him were received Died 11/8/2012
Maguire, Felix – Ordination 5/18/1950 Assistant, St. Augustine, North Branford Assistant Pastor, St. Patrick, Mystic Temp. Assistant, St. Thomas, Goshen Assistant Pastor, St. Mary Magdalen, Oakville Assistant Pastor, St. Lawrence, West Haven Assistant Pastor, St. Pius X, Wolcott Assistant Pastor, St. Augustine, South Glastonbury Pastor, St. John Fisher, Marlborough On Leave, Three Months Pastor, St. Mary Derby Pastor, St. Theresa, North Haven Retired, 1992 Removed from ministry, 1992 Died 7/13/2008
Manspeaker, Terry – Ordination 11/24/1990 (Transitional Deacon – en route to priestly ordination) Released as a seminarian from the Archdiocese of Washington, 1989 Granted candidacy for Holy Orders in the Archdiocese of Hartford, 1990 Seminarian assignment, St. Augustine, Seymour Deacon, St. Lucy Parish, Waterbury Removed from ministry in the Archdiocese of Hartford, 5/15/1992 McGann, Richard – Ordination 5/23/1970 Assistant Pastor, St. Gregory, Bristol Chaplain, Hartford Hospital Director Pastoral Ministry, St. Paul High School, Bristol Pastor, Our Lady of Mercy, Plainville Removed from ministry, 6/14/2005 Sentenced to a life of “prayer and penance” by the Holy See in Rome, 5/24/2016 McSheffery, Daniel – Ordination 5/10/1956 Temp. Assistant, St. Ann, Avon Assistant Pastor, St. Mary, Branford Assistant Pastor, St. Augustine, Hartford Pastor, St George, Guilford Pastor, St. Augustine, North Branford Removed from ministry, 5/10/2002 Died 6/15/2014 Mitchell, Peter – Ordination 5/3/1951 Assistant Pastor, St. Patrick, Mystic Assistant Pastor, St. Mary, Derby Leave of Absence for work in Archdiocese of Santa Fe Assistant Pastor, St. John the Evangelist, West Hartford Assistant Pastor, St. Aedan, New Haven Assistant Pastor, Assumption, Woodbridge Pastor, St. Clare, East Haven Residence, St. Mary, Branford Assistant Pastor, St. Mary, Branford Chaplain, St. Francis Hospital, Hartford Pastor Emeritus, St. Mary, Derby Removed from ministry subsequent to retirement, 12/31/2001 Died 5/20/2016
Muha, Edward – Ordination 12/22/1945 Assistant Pastor, St. Mary, Newington Assistant Pastor, SS Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport Assistant Pastor, Our Lady of Mercy, Plainville Assistant Pastor, St. Michael, Waterville Assistant Pastor, St. Francis, New Haven Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Terryville Pastor Emeritus, Immaculate Conception, Terryville Died 2/11/2002 before the single claim against him was received in 2004 Nash, Howard – Ordination 1/15/1961 Assistant Pastor, Holy Infant, Orange Temp Co-Pastor, St. Michael, Hartford Assistant Pastor, St. Agnes, Woodmont Co-Pastor, St. Bernadette, New Haven Temp Administrator, St. Casimir, New Haven Administrator, St. Bernadette, New Haven Pastor, St. Bernadette, New Haven Died 10/28/2001 before the single claim against him was received in 2003
O’Connor, John T. – Ordination 6/29/1946 Assistant Pastor, St. Thomas, Southington Assistant Pastor, St. Francis, Torrington Assistant Pastor, St. Mary, Newington Pastor, Holy Spirit, Newington Pastor Emeritus, St. Dominic, Southington Died 12/1/2003 before any claims against him were received Paul, Raymond – Ordination 5/19/1955 Assistant Pastor, St. Paul, Kensington Assistant Pastor, St. Thomas, Waterbury Assistant Pastor, St. Barnabas, North Haven Temp. Chaplain, St. Mary Hospital, Waterbury Chaplain, St. Mary Hospital, Waterbury Assistant Pastor, St. Augustine, North Branford Assistant Pastor, St. George, Guilford Assistant Pastor, St. Augustine, Seymour Assistant Pastor, Holy Rosary, Ansonia Removed from ministry, 2/21/1996 Died, 7/4/2008
Paturzo, Louis – Ordination 5/26/1973 Assistant Pastor, Sacred Heart, Waterbury Assistant Pastor, Blessed Sacrament, Hamden Assistant Pastor, Sacred Heart, Hartford Temp. Administrator, Sacred Heart, Hartford Assistant Pastor, St. Augustine, Hartford Temp. Administrator, St. John Evangelist, West Hartford On Leave, Two Months Assistant Pastor, St Lawrence O’Toole, Hartford Assistant Pastor, St. Ann, New Britain Assistant Pastor, St. Joseph & St. Anthony, Bristol Chaplain, State of CT Department of Corrections Removed from ministry in 2002 Laicized in 2008
Perrault, Arthur – Ordination 5/7/1964 Assistant Pastor, St. Bernard, Sharon Assistant Pastor, Blessed Sacrament, East Hartford On Leave, Two Weeks; Assistant Pastor, St. Joseph, New Haven Assistant Pastor, St. Francis, Naugatuck; On Leave, Via Coeli, New Mexico Removed from ministry in 1965, and sent for evaluation and treatment at a facility in New Mexico. In 1967, following treatment in New Mexico, Perrault, at his request, was excardinated (ceased to be a priest) from the Archdiocese of Hartford and, at the request of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, was incardinated (became a priest) of that Archdiocese. Przybylo, William – Ordination 5/23/1968 Temp. Assistant, St. Bernard, Sharon Assistant Pastor, SS. Peter & Paul, Wallingford Assistant Pastor, St. Mary, Derby Assistant Pastor, Holy Cross, New Britain Spiritual Director, St. Paul High School, Bristol Vice principal, St. Thomas Aquinas High School, New Britain Principal, St. Thomas Aquinas High School, New Britain Pastor, SS. Cyril & Methodius, Hartford Removed from ministry, 9/22/2008 Sentenced to a life of “prayer and penance” by the Holy See in Rome, 10/21/2015 Raffaeta, George – Ordination 5/10/1956 Temp. Administrator, Immaculate Conception, New Hartford Assistant Pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes, Waterbury Assistant Pastor, St. Bernard, Hazardville Assistant Pastor, St. Mary, Derby Chaplain, Hartford Hospital, Hartford Temp. Administrator, St. Monica, Northford Assistant Pastor, St. George, Guilford Assistant Pastor, St. Augustine, Seymour Pastor, Holy Infant, Orange Pastor, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Meriden Pastor, St. Clare, East Haven Pastor Emeritus, St. Francis, New Britain Pastor Emeritus, St. Paul, West Haven Pastor Emeritus, St. Agnes, Woodmont Retired, 1/1/2001 Removed from ministry, 5/23/2002 Died 5/26/2010 Reardon, Edward – Ordination 5/14/1931 Assistant Pastor, St. Anthony, Hartford Sick Leave Assistant Pastor, St. Joseph, Canaan Assistant Pastor, St. Mary, Greenwich Assistant Pastor, St. Joseph, New London Assistant Pastor, St. Mary, New London Assistant Pastor, St. Thomas the Apostle, West Hartford Administrator, St. Bernard, Hazardville Pastor, St. Bernard, Hazardville Pastor, St. James, Manchester Pastor Emeritus, St. James, Manchester Retired, 6/11/1979 Died 5/23/1991 before the single claim was received in 2004 Renkiewicz, Adolph – Ordination 5/10/1956 Assistant Pastor, Sacred Heart, New Britain Assistant Pastor, St. Ann, Devon Assistant Pastor, St. Casimir, Terryville Assistant Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Southington Assistant Pastor, Holy Cross, New Britain Pastor, St. Adalbert, Enfield Pastor, St. Stanislaus, Meriden On Leave, Holy Family Monastery Chaplain, with ministry restricted exclusively to the Felician Sisters Motherhouse, Enfield Died 8/17/2015
Rozint, Joseph – Ordination 5/4/1967 Temp. Assistant, St. Mary, Milford Assistant Pastor, St. Mary, Milford Assistant Pastor, St. Paul, Glastonbury Co-Pastor, St. Thomas, Waterbury Co-Pastor, St. Gertrude, Windsor Co-Pastor/Administrator, St. Rita, Hamden Pastor, Ascension, Hamden Abandoned the ministry in 1993 before any claims against him were received Died 4/30/2009
Shea, Robert E. – Ordination 5/22/1941 Assistant, St. Mary, Portland Assistant, St. Patrick, Thompsonville Assistant, St. Mary, New Britain Assistant, St. Patrick, Waterbury Pastor, St. Patrick, Waterbury Retired 7/1/1992 Died 6/21/1995 before any claims against him were received Shiner, Kenneth – Ordination 5/22/1971 Assistant, Cathedral of St. Joseph, Hartford Assistant Pastor, St. Brigid, Elmwood Assistant Pastor, Our Lady of Fatima, Yalesville Co-Pastor, St. Francis of Assisi, New Britain Pastor, St. Elizabeth, Branford Pastor, St. Mary, Unionville Resigned Pastorate 10/30/2000 Removed from ministry, 6/25/2001 Laicized 4/29/2016 Tissera, (Wamakulasuriya) Edward – Ordination 1/22/1989 Priest of the Diocese of Chilaw, Sri Lanka Assistant Pastor, St. Peter Claver, West Hartford Assistant Pastor, St. Martha, Enfield Assistant Pastor, St. Joseph, New Britain Assistant Pastor, St. Joseph/St. Maurice, New Britain Assistant Pastor, St. Patrick/St. Joseph, Waterbury Administrator, St. Bernard, Tariffville Incardinated (became a priest of the Archdiocese of Hartford) 9/29/2010 Removed from ministry, 7/21/2011 Laicized, 5/29/2018 Werpechowski, Felix – Ordination 5/25/1929 Assistant Pastor, St. Augustine, South Glastonbury Assistant Pastor, St. Mary Church, Middletown Assistant Pastor, Holy Cross, New Britain Assistant Pastor, Holy Name, Stamford Assistant Pastor, St. Hedwig, Union City Chaplain, US Army Assistant Pastor, Holy Name, Stamford Assistant Pastor, St. Thomas, Thomaston Pastor, St. Paul, Greenwich Pastor, Holy Name, Stamford Retired, 5/31/1971 Died 1/22/1972 before any claims against him were received Zizka, Peter – Ordination 5/24/1975 Assistant Pastor, Holy Spirit, Newington Chaplain, Connecticut National Guard Assistant Pastor, St. Paul, Glastonbury Assistant Pastor, St. Margaret Mary, South Windsor Co-Pastor, St. Margaret Mary, South Windsor Assistant Pastor, St. Joseph, Suffield Pastor, St. Isaac Jogues, East Hartford Temporary Assistant, St. Bridget, Cheshire Temporary Assistant, St. Jude, Derby Pastor, St. Bartholomew, Manchester Removed from ministry, 3/19/1999 Laicized in 2001 Kramek, Roman [Priest of the Archdiocese of Warmia, Poland] “Visiting priest” helping out at Sacred Heart, New Britain, 12/2002, without any record of having been granted the faculties required for priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of Hartford Arrested, removed from ministry, 12/2002 Returned to Poland after incarceration, 2005 Meunier, Lucien – Ordination 8/27/1939 (a/k/a Luke Meunier de la Pierre; a/k/a Maurice Meunier) [Priest of the Diocese of Amos in the Province of Quebec, Canada] “Visiting priest” helping out at St. Francis Xavier Parish in New Milford from 1981 to 1982, without any record of having been granted the faculties required for priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of Hartford Left the Archdiocese of Hartford many years before any claims against him were received Franklin, Edward – Ordination 1962 [Priest of the Diocese of Ogdensberg, New York] https://www.rcdony.org/ Study Leave at Trinity College, Hartford, while residing at Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Plainville, without any record of having been granted the faculties required for priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of Hartford Removed from ministry by the Diocese of Ogdensberg, 1996 Died, 4-16-2005 Primavera, Bruno – Ordination 3/5/1973 [A Priest of the Archdiocese of Toronto, Canada, who ministered in the Archdiocese of Hartford] https://www.archtoronto.org/ Faculty, Northwest Catholic High School, and removed after two months, 1981 Resided and helped out at St. Adalbert, Enfield, without any record of having been granted the faculties required for priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of Hartford, 1981– 1983 Left the Archdiocese of Hartford, 6/1983 Removed from ministry by Archdiocese of Toronto,1990 Died, 1/17/2006 Ramsay, John B. [Priest of the Diocese of Norwich] https://www.norwichdiocese.org/ Volunteered & taught religious instruction classes at St. Adalbert, Enfield, 1978-1979 Died 7/26/94 before the single claim against him was received Rivera, Jose [Priest of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa, Honduras] Chaplain, Saint Raphael Hospital, New Haven 1993 – 1994 Removed from ministry in the Archdiocese of Hartford, 9/9/1994 Izquierdo, William LC – Ordination 1958 [Priest of the Legionaries of Christ, Cheshire] https://legionariesofchrist.org/ Served as novice instructor from 1982-1995 Reassigned by the Legionaries of Christ outside the Archdiocese of Hartford, 1995 Miller, Michael OFM Conv. [Priest of the Franciscan Friars Conventual, St. Anthony of Padua Province] https://www.franciscans.org/ Parochial Vicar, St. Paul, Kensington/Berlin 2006 – 2011 Removed from ministry on 7/4/2011 by his Franciscan Superior Pelkington, Robert Leo OP – Ordination 1968 [Priest of the Dominican Friars, Province of St. Joseph] https://opeast.org/ St. Mary, New Haven 1994-1995 Reassigned by his Dominican Superior outside of the Archdiocese of Hartford in 1995 Removed from ministry by his Dominican Superior in 1999 Laicized, 2011 Died, 2015 Pryor, John OAR [Priest of the Order of Augustinian Recollects] “Visiting priest” helping out at St. Bernard, Tariffville in 1967, without any record of having been granted the faculties required for priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of Hartford Rudy, John OFM [Priest of the Holy Name Province of Franciscans] https://hnp.org/ Parochial Vicar, St. Joseph, Winsted 1993 – 1998 Removed from ministry by his Franciscan Superior in 1998
Szantyr, John – Ordination 6/8/1957 [Priest of the Congregation of Marian Fathers] https://www.marian.org/ Dismissed from the Congregation of Marian Fathers, 1972 Assisted in the early seventies at Sacred Heart High School in his hometown of Waterbury, without any record of having been granted the faculties required for priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of Hartford Treatment at a facility in Massachusetts, 1975 Prohibited in 1978 from priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of Hartford after a claim against him was received Died 5/16/2014
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