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Summary of Case: Rev. Christian Roy was ordained a priest of the Portland, ME diocese in 1975. He served as an assistant at parishes in Augusta, Biddeford and Sanford, pastored parishes in Rockland and Belfast, and was a chaplain at Maine State Prison. Roy was also the diocese’s Catholic Scouting chaplain from 1981-1993. In 1993 Roy was removed from active ministry after an allegation surfaced that he had sexually abused a minor form 1983-1990. In 1994 he was sued by a woman who claimed Roy had a sexual relationship with her husband during the time the couple was seeing Roy for marriage counseling. Roy was laicized in 2006.
Ordained: 1975
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