Fr. Ronald J. Dombrowski

Suspended 3/15/2018 after the Diocese was contacted by someone claiming sexual abuse as a minor by Dombrowski. In 7/2021 the Diocese announced Dombrowski’s permanent removal from ministry, and that two additional alleged victims had come forward after the initial allegation, dating to early in his priesthood. Dombrowski was to live a life of prayer and penance. He was added to the Diocese’s list of credibly accused. Included in the MI Attorney General’s 6/25/2026 Diocese of Saginaw Report. The report reveals that in 6/2013 a woman told the Diocese that when her son was ages 10-12 during 1972-1974, Dombrowski would sleep with him and other boys on overnight trips in hotels, and her son said that the priest would “hold him during the night like a teddy bear.” The son met with the Diocese in 3/2018 and said that the incidents happened during a trip to FL in 1975 and included unwanted touching and abuse. Also in 3/2018 a woman reported that her two young teenage brothers would spend weekends in the rectory with Dombrowski, and that one of the brothers said that he would wake up at night and feel something hard against his back. The brother confirmed with the Diocese that Dombrowski would sleep in bed with him but denied the hard thing against his back. He said it was in the early 1980s when he was in 7th or 8th grade. In 6/2018 a man reported that when he was a boy in the mid-1970s he and his two brothers were made to cuddle with Dombrowski during trips. In 4/2018 a man reported similar behavior by the Dombrowski toward him and other boys during overnight trips 40 years prior. In 5/2024 the Diocese received a report from an attorney that a man claimed that Dombrowski groomed him as a boy and tried to get him to sleep with him at a hotel during an overnight trip.