Fr. David W. Bialkowski

Ordained: 1988
Status: Sued

Diocese: Diocese of Buffalo NY

“Rumors” in 1994 by Bialkowski’s former pastor of a “love affair” with two teens. Police told the Diocese in 1995 they found Bialkowski with a 16-year-old boy in a car at night. Bishop Grosz was warned in the late 1990s that the priest took teenage boys into his bedroom. Removed from St. John Gualbert parish in Cheektowaga in 2/2011 after he was accused of touching the upper thigh of a teen and making suggestive comments to him 10 years prior. The Diocese first said Bialkowski was on medical leave, then admitted in 3/2011 that it was administrative leave. Two additional accusers had come forward as of 3/8/2011. Included on the Diocese’s 3/20/2018 list of credibly accused. Found in 3/2018 working as an organist for a Lutheran church in Tonawanda. A lawsuit in 8/2019 claims sex abuse of a boy, age 8, 1999-2000, during counseling at St. John Gualbert. Removed 5/1/2020 from the diocesan payroll as part of its bankruptcy agreement. Per the Diocese’s list in 1/2022 Bialkowski’s case was sent to Rome. The list in 9/2025 shows that he had been removed from the clerical state.

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