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By Julianna Crisalli

Fr. Tim Ramaekers has been named Corpus Christi Catholic Church’s new pastor, effective July 1.

Bishop Tod Brown appointed Ramaekers, who is currently pastor of St. Joseph parish in Placentia, as the successor to Fr. Fred Bailey.

At a Mass on Sunday, Bailey called Ramaekers, a seminary classmate, “a good man, with a good heart.”

A parish bulletin announcement about Ramaekers noted that he comes to Corpus Christi shadowed by a “false accusation” of sexual misconduct made in 2009.

The allegation was made by a man who claimed to have recovered repressed memories of sexual abuse by four priests and one layperson from 1978-86 at St. Justin Martyr, according to the bulletin and church documents.