Fr. Mario Bordignon
From Italy where he was ordained in 1950. Arrived in the U.S. in 5/1951, assigned to a parish in New Haven CT, then to Bristol RI 1959-1964. In 1964 Bordignon was sent as a missionary to CA. He returned to East Coast, in NYC, in around 1966 and then in 1966 to New Haven CT, per the Official Catholic Directory. From 1988 until his death in 1992 Bordignon was back in RI, at a Providence parish. He was named publicly as accused in the 3/4/2026 RI Attorney General’s Report. In 2/2013 a woman reported to the Diocese that in 1964, when she was age 15, Bordignon sexually assaulted her on five or six occasions. He was a family friend. She said the abuse took place during swimming outings in the Palmer River in Barrington. The Diocese informed the Scalabrinians whose lawyer responded that any civil claims were time-barred. The Order did not reach out to the alleged victim; the lawyer wrote to the Diocese that the claims were merely allegations from 49 years ago and that Provincial “will himself decide on a pastoral basis whether to speak with [the complainant].”
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