rev. Charles M. Loeffler, s.j.-Assignment Record

Assignment Record– Rev. Charles M. Loeffler, s.j.

Summary of Case: A priest of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), Loeffler was accused in a 2003 lawsuit of having sexually abused a nine-year-old girl and her older sister, beginning in 1941. Loeffler died in 1992.

Ordained: 1941
Died: July 1992

Start	Stop	Assignment	Town/Accusations	State	Position	Notes
1941 Boston archbishop was William Henry O'Connell (1907-1944).	1942	Weston College	Weston • In a 2003 lawsuit a 70 year old woman accused Loeffler of having molested her as a child, beginning in 1941 when she was nine years old. She said Loeffler abused her older sister as well. (January 30, 2003)	MA
1942 Hartford bishop was Maurice Francis McAuliffe (1934-1944).	1943	St. Robert's Hall	Pomfret	CT	tertian	This was the Tertianship of the New England Province of the Society of Jesus.
1943 Baghdad bishop was Armand-Etienne M. Blanquet du Chayla, O.C.D. (1939-1964).	1950	Baghdad College	Baghdad (Sulaikh)	Iraq	teacher of theology, English, and math (Boston Globe July 5, 1992)
1950 Boston archbishop was Richard James Cushing (1944-1970).	1951	Holy Trinity (German)	Boston	MA	5/7	Parish had a school with 99 boys and 96 girls.
1951	1961	Baghdad College	Baghdad (Sulaikh)	Iraq	teacher of theology, English, and math
1961	1962	Weston College	Weston	MA
1962 Baghdad bishop was Paul-Marie-Maurice Perrin (1965-1970).	1969	Baghdad University	Baghdad	Iraq	teacher of theology, English, and math
1969 Cushing was succeeded by Humberto Sousa Medeiros (1970-1983), followed by Bernard Francis Law (1984-2002).	1991	Immaculate Conception (Collegiate Church)	Boston	MA	Loeffler was a chaplain at Boston City Hospital 1975-1983, and then at Boston University Hospital.
1991	1992	Campion Center	Boston	MA		Loeffler died in July 1992. (Boston Globe July 5, 1992)

Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1942-1992) )

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This assignment record was last updated on Sept. 23, 2010 .