Fr. Benedict J. Marciulionis

Ordained for the Diocese of Grand Rapids. Became a priest of the Diocese of Gaylord when it was established in 1971. First named publicly as credibly accused by the Diocese of Gaylord on its list 11/10/2018. Removed from ministry in 1981. Died in 2000. Included in the MI Attorney General’s 1/8/2024 Gaylord report. Per the report, in 8/2007 a woman told the Diocese that Marciulionis sexually abused her in the early 1980s, when she was in fifth through eighth grades. She said the abuse occurred in his car, his bedroom, the confessional and in the rectory. She said he also sexually abused her siblings, and that the abuse ended after a sister told their mother. Police investigated and Marciulionis was removed from the parish several weeks later. Included in the MI Attorney General’s 12/15/2025 Diocese of Grand Rapids report. In 5/2020 the A.G.’s office received a report from a woman that she and her two sisters were sexually abused by Marciulionis, beginning in 1969 when the woman was age 8. She was the eldest of the three girls. The abuse started after their father died and the girls slept over at the rectory at night while their mother worked.