Fr. James E. Kircher

Ordained in 1963 for the Diocese of Jackson. In residence in the 1970s at St. Julian Eymard in Algiers LA, Archdiocese of New Orleans. Removed from ministry in 1987 for misconduct. Retired in 1991. Four men alleged in a 2/2002 lawsuit that they were sexually abused as boys by Kircher beginning in the mid-1970s and continuing through 1984. Two plaintiffs had previously settled with the Diocese in 1994. The judge dismissed a portion of the suit involving two who had previously settled but allowed two new plaintiffs’ case to go forward. Kircher’s name was included on the New Orleans archdiocese’s 11/2/2018 list of accused, which noted an allegation received in 2010 of abuse in the 1970s. He died in 2007 in his native Rochester, NY. Included on the Jackson diocese’s list 3/19/2019 of credibly accused, which showed reports in 1986 and 2002 of abuse by Kircher 1978-1982.