BUFFALO (NY)
Buffalo News
April 10, 2019
By Jay Tokasz
Bishop Richard J. Malone has appointed Charles Mendolera, a veteran employee of the Buffalo Diocese, as executive director of financial administration.
Mendolera has been serving as interim director for the past few weeks. He succeeds Steven D. Timmel, who resigned in March after 31 years with the diocese.
Mendolera will oversee a sprawling, multimillion-dollar operation that includes dozens of facilities, hundreds of diocesan employees and more than $47 million in diocesan investments. He assumes the top financial position as the diocese is offering millions of dollars in compensation to childhood victims of clergy sex abuse and bracing for the prospect of potentially expensive lawsuits stemming from the state’s recently adopted Child Victims Act, which includes a one-year window for abuse victims from decades ago to file civil legal claims.
Mendolera started with the diocese as director of accounting from 2004 to 2008. He has been controller of financial administration since 2008.
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