Fr. Michael Francis Krol

Ordained: 1945
Status: Accused

Died: 09/18/1996
Diocese: Diocese of Austin TX

Ordained for the Diocese of Austin. Named publicly as accused on Austin’s list 1/31/2019. Included on the Norwich diocese’s list 2/22/2019. It notes he left the diocese in 1963. Also worked or lived in Brooklyn NY, Chicago IL, Jacarezinho Brazil, London, UK, Runge TX, Enid OK, Sayre OK, Lamar CO, New London CT. Died in 1996. Included in the CO Attorney General’s report 10/22/2019 (as Michael J.), which notes abuse in the Pueblo diocese of three teenage boys in 1962, each reported the same year to the diocese. Pueblo had accepted Krol in 1961, despite information from the Brooklyn diocese about his abuse of boys. Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General’s Report.


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