Fr. Raphael Inchody

From India. Arrived in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in 1976 after having resided at Via Coeli in Jemez Springs, NM. Had been in ministry at least late 1970-early 1971 in the Diocese of Providence RI. Accused in legal documents filed in the Santa Fe Archdiocese’s bankruptcy proceedings of sexually abusing two sisters. A document filed in 5/2019 reports that Inchody sexually abused one of the girls, age 12, multiple times during 1976-1977, at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish in Albuquerque. The girl told her parents about the abuse after she “had a nervous breakdown.” Inchody soon left the parish. He left the archdiocese in 1978 and was dismissed from the order in 1980 after marrying. He had a daughter, later divorced. The other sister reported in a document filed 6/4/2019, that Inchody sexually abused her at age 13 in the Spring of 1977, while she was hospitalized for two weeks due to a head injury from a bicycle accident. She was a Holy Rosary student. The head injury affected her memory; she recalled only being terrified of Inchody after the hospitalization, and that she subsequently had symptoms of a pregnancy which lead to her ending up in a hospital Emergency Room. She heard the doctor ask her father if she could be pregnant. One of the girls in the family wrote in an affidavit in 5/2019 that Inchody was “overly friendly with children,” that he would often take children to the back of the church and that none of them, when she asked, wanted to talk about it. Inchody died 1/14/1998.