Fr. Isidro Tabay Gargantiel

From the Philippines, where he was ordained in 1968 in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental. Appears to have arrived in the Diocese of Grand Rapids in 1976, where he was incardinated in 8/2002. Died in 2010. Named publicly as accused in the MI Attorney General’s 12/15/2025 Diocese of Grand Rapids Report. Per the report, in 7/2002 a man reported to the Diocese that Gargantiel attempted to solicit him for sex at age 17-18 in 1985. Gargantiel was sent for a psychological evaluation, after which was allowed ministry with supervision by the Vicar for Priests. Another man reported to the Diocese in 2/2004 that when he was in sixth or seventh grade at Holy Trinity in Alpine MI in 1978 or 1979, Gargantiel was “always trying to get the boys alone” and would take him for rides alone in the country. He said that on one occasion Gargantiel was rubbing his [the boy’s] head and his [the priest’s] genitals through his pants. The boy’s parents told the parish pastor and Gargantiel was reassigned. One report to the Diocese alleged that Gargantiel told the alleged victim that he “could not return to the Philippines because he was a naughty boy and the government would get him.”