49 Accused in This Diocese
- San Francisco Chronicle 11.09.89
- San Jose Mercury News 04.25.94
- San Jose Mercury News 09.20.02
- SF Chronicle 09.20.02
- San Jose Mercury News 06.27.03
- Times 07.02.03
- San Francisco Chronicle 09.22.05
- SF Weekly 01.05.06
- Contra Costa Times 07.08.06
- West County Times 07.11.06
- City of Angels 03.19.08
- City of Angels 03.25.08
- Contra Costa Times 04.01.08
- San Jose Mercury News 04.01.08
- joeypiscatelli website 11.25.18
- Diocese of Oakland List 06.01.19
- CNN via San Jose Mercury News 12.02.19
- Catholic News Agency 12.02.22
- Tri-Valley Herald 08.09.02
- San Francisco Chronicle 08.09.02
- San Jose Mercury News 08.09.02
- San Francisco Chronicle 08.29.02
- San Mateo County Times 04.08.03
- San Mateo County Times 04.10.03
- San Francisco Chronicle 04.14.03
- SF Weekly 05.21.03
- San Francisco Chronicle 06.17.03
- SF Weekly 07.30.03
- SF Weekly 08.27.03
- San Mateo Daily Journal 12.30.03
- St James Catholic Church Bulletin accessed 09.24.11
- KNTV 05.26.23
- Contra Costa Times 11.15.00
- SF Chronicle 11.17.00
- San Jose Murcery News 11.17.00
- SF Chronicle 12.01.00
- San Jose Mercury News 03.01.01
- Contra CostaTimes 07.02.03
- San Francisco 08.22.05
- SF Weekly 01.05.06
- City of Angels 03.19.08
- San Jose Mercury News 04.01.08
- Contra Costa Times 04.01.08
- SF Chronicle 09.12.10
- Bay Area Observer 09.15.10
- joeypiscatelli website 11.25.18
- Diocese of Oakland List 06.01.19
- CNN via San Jose Mercury News 12.02.19
- BA.org Assignment Record
- San Francisco Chronicle 08.16.02
- Marin Independent Journal 08.22.02
- San Francisco Chronicle 08.29.02
- San Francisco Chronicle 01.24.03
- San Francisco Chronicle 01.30.03
- San Francisco Chronicle 02.01.03
- San Francisco Chronicle 03.31.03
- SF Weekly 05.21.03
- SF Weekly 06.25.03
- SFGate 06.28.03
- San Francisco Chronicle 11.12.04
- San Francisco Chronicle 01.31.10
- BA.org Assignment Record
- San Francisco Chronicle 05.23.03
- Daily Bulletin (AP) 05.24.03
- LA Times 05.25.03
- San Francisco Chronicle 05.29.03
- SF Weekly 06.09.03
- San Francisco Chronicle 11.12.04
- SF Weekly 01.19.05
- SF Weekly 01.19.05
- San Francisco Chronicle 06.11.05
- San Francisco Chronicle 06.14.05
- SF Weekly 07.13.05
- AveWatch 12.22.08
- NY Times 05.05.10
- Associated Press 07.29.19
- BishopAccountability Assignment Record
- The Examiner 12.05.19
- KRON 12.05.19
- San Francisco Chronicle 05.24.94
- San Francisco Chronicle 05.25.94
- San Francisco Chronicle 11.09.94
- San Francisco Chronicle 08.10.95
- San Francisco Chronicle 03.22.96
- Press Democrat 06.09.02
- San Francisco Chronicle 09.20.02
- Union Tribune 11.23.02
- San Francisco Chronicle 03.02.03
- Union Tribune 03.05.03
- San Francisco Chronicle 03.30.03
- San Francisco Chronicle 03.31.03
- Proceso 03.03.03
- El Siglo de Torreon 03.04.03
- San Francisco Chronicle 06.27.03
- Press Democrat 01.19.04
- San Francisco Chronicle 11.12.04
- Press Democrat 07.01.06
- Chicago Tribune 03.11.12
- KGO TV 10.21.18
- Diocese of Santa Rosa List 01.12.19
- Diocese of Las Cruces List Updated 06.24.19
- Trident Society Obituary 10.22.21
- KGO 06.27.22
- Press Democrat 12.16.22
- BA.org Assignment Record
- The Almanac 06.01.11
- WTVU 06.02.11
- SF Weekly 06.02.11
- Mercury News 06.02.11
- Menlo Park Patch 06.02.11
- The Almanac 06.06.11
- Modesto Bee 06.08.11
- Catholic San Francisco 06.08.11
- SF Weekly 06.16.11
- Catholic San Franciso 07.15.11
- Mercury News 07.15.11
- The Almanac 12.23.11
- Modesto Bee 01.06.12
- California Catholic Daily 01.09.12
- BA.org Assignment Record
- Diocese of Stockton Revised List 11.12.20
- SF Chronicle 03.26.94
- SF Chronicle 05.24.94
- SF Chronicle 01.24.95
- SF Chronicle 01.25.95
- SF Chronicle 03.22.96
- SF Chronicle 06.06.96
- SF Chronicle 04.15.00
- SF Chronicle 04.22.00
- SF Chronicle 06.16.00
- SF Chronicle 06.17.00
- SF Chronicle 03.15.02
- SF Chronicle 03.29.03
- SF Chronicle 06.29.03
- SF Chronicle 02.03.04
- New Oxford Review 06.17.05
- SF Chronicle 09.22.05
- Chico Enterpriese Record 10.24.05
- SF Chronicle 04.04.06
- Huffington Post 08.20.11
- BA.org Assignment Record
- SF Weekly 01.05.06
- CBS 47 (AP) 07.18.07
- Associated Press 07.18.07
- KCBS 07.22.07
- Doe v Salesian Society (Cal Court of Appeals) 01.29.08
- Summary of Findings in Doe v Salesian Society (CA Court of Appeals) 01.29.08
- Metropolitan News Enterprise 01.30.08
- San Francisco Chronicle 01.30.08
- City of Angels 03.19.08
- Contra Costa Times 04.01.08
- San Jose Mercury News 04.01.08
- Diocese of Oakland List 06.01.19
- BA.org Assignment Record
- Mercury News 06.11.03
- San Francisco Chronicle 06.11.03
- New Mexican 06.12.03
- Albuquerque Journal 08.01.03
- San Mateo Daily Journal 12.30.03
- San Mateo County Times 08.24.04
- San Francisco Examiner 08.24.04
- San Mateo County Times 09.18.04
- San Mateo County Times 10.07.04
- New Mexican 03.12.06
- SNAP 01.28.09
- New Mexican 02.05.09
- San Mateo County Times 02.13.09
- ABS-CBN 02.14.12
- SNAP Statement 02.14.12
- New Mexican 02.14.12
- ABS-CBN News 02.16.12
- GMA News 02.16.12
- GMA News 02.16.12
- BA.org Assignment Record
- San Francisco Chronicle 08.29.02
- BA.org Assignment Record
- LA Times Database 04.20.06
- Santa Barbara Province Franciscans List 05.31.19
- Link to additional articles prior to 12.31.11
- Fox News 05.22.12
- CBS Los Angeles 05.23.12
- San Antonio Express News 05.23.12
- Personnel file posted on BishopAccountability 05.23.12
- LA Times 05.23.12
- Christian Post 05.24.12
- The Patch 06.01.12
- San Antonio Express News 06.01.12
- Daily Mail (UK) 06.02.12
- KVOR 06.02.12
- LA Times 01.15.13
- Get Religion 01.16.13
- Santa Barbara Province Franciscans List 05.31.19
- Diocese of Oakland List 06.01.19
- SNAP 11.13.19
- Santa Barbara Independent 06.20.22
Fr. Peter Gomez Armstrong

Fr. James W. Aylward

Fr. Theodore Baquedano Pech

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Francisco CA
Priest of the Archdiocese of Yucatan, Mexico, assigned in the Archdiocese of San Francisco CA 1967-1975. In 1993 a 30-year-old woman reported to San Francisco that Baquedano Pech sexually abused her for several years, beginning when she was 11; the Archdiocese said it was not responsible because he was a visiting priest. She repeatedly warned Mexico church officials, but was kept in ministry there. The woman sued the San Francisco Archdiocese and received a settlement in 2006. He was suspended 4/26/2010 by the Yucatan archdiocese, just after the allegations appeared in a Washington Post news article.
Br. Salvatore Billante

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Fr. Jean-Pierre Bongila

Accused in a lawsuit filed in 11/04 of sexually abusing a girl 1996-2000, starting when she was ages 16-17 and Bongila was working in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Bongila denied the allegations. The suit settled in 2006. The archdiocese investigated and reportedly "cleared" Bongila. In 2013 a second lawsuit reportedly was filed, claiming Bongila sexually abused a male under age 18. It was dismissed in 7/19 because of lack of participation from the plaintiff in the case. Bongila began work in 2006 as the founding director of the International Leadership Program at the Universiy of St. Thomas in Minneapolis MN, where he remained as of 1/22.
Fr. Roberto Bravo

Fr. Daniel E. Carter

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Fr. Edmond G. Cloutier

Fr. Arthur Manuel Cunha

Fr. Bernard Dabbene

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Fr. Harold Danielson

Fr. Paul E. Duggan

Named publicly as credibly accused by the Diocese of San Jose on its list updated 4/5/19. It notes that Duggan was removed from public ministry by the San Francisco archdiocese in 2002 due to a recent report of "sexual misconduct with a child at St. Patrick School during the 1950s." Duggan retired in 1983 and died 3/30/07.
Fr. Charles J. Durkin

Br. Hal Ellis
Fr. Elwood F. Geary

Accused in a lawsuit sometime between 2020-2022 of sexually abusing a boy, age 11, in 1968 at Our Lady Queen of Apostles in San Jose. Geary allegedly fondled the boy's genitals and forced oral sex on him. Geary was the parish's founding pastor in 1960, remaining in that role until 1979. The parish was part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco until the Diocese of San Jose was established in 1981, the year Geary died.
Fr. Robert J. Gemmet

Accused in a 3/20 lawsuit of repeatedly sexually abusing an altar boy, beginning with grooming when the boy was age 10 in 1967. Gemmet allegedly told boy that God would kill him and that he would "have to watch his parents and siblings die" if he told anyone about the abuse. After ordination Gemmet was assigned to St. Timothy in San Mateo. Per the San Jose diocese, in the 1960s and 1970s he was assigned to St. Christopher in San Jose and St. Mary in Gilroy. He reportedly worked as a seminarian at day camps in San Francisco and Redwood City. Prior to that he taught CCD at St. Simon in Los Altos. His name last appears in the 1980 Official Catholic Directory. He died in 1985 at age 46.
Fr. David A. Ghiorso

In a 10/20/21 letter to his parishioners, the diocese announced that Ghiorso had been accused in a civil claim of the sexual abuse of a minor 30-40 years previously. Placed on leave pending investigation. Three suits reportedly filed by 6/23/22. One claims Ghiorso plied an altar boy with wine and raped him at St. Vincents School for Boys for a year beginning in 1989. Another suit, filed in 4/22, claims Ghiorso raped a boy multiple times at St. Vincents 1988-1991, beginning when the boy was age 10. Ghiorso's attorney denied the allegations.
Fr. Martin F. Greenlaw

Accused in a 2022 lawsuit of sexually abusing a boy, age 8, in the 1980s. Greenlaw pleaded guilty in the mid-1990s to embezzling from the church. He died in 2018.
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Fr. Michael D. Harriman

Monsignor. Sued under the CA Child Victims Act which took effect 1/1/20. Accused of sexually abusing boy(s) at St. Vincent's Boys Home and CYO Camp in the early 1980s. Denied the allegation(s). The review board did not substantiate the claim(s). In active ministry in 6/22.
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Fr. John P. Heaney

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Fr. Gregory G. Ingels
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Fr. Frank Ivey
Named publicly as credibly accused by the St. Barbara Province Franciscans on its list in 9/20. Accused in 2002 of abuse occurring in 1978 and 1979, while assigned to St. Boniface in San Francisco, He is noted to have lived outside of the order beginning in 1988, and to have been formally dismissed in 2016.
Fr. John P. Kavanaugh
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Fr. Austin Peter Keegan

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Fr. Daniel T. Keohane

Fr. Jerome Leach
Fr. Epiphanius Lewis
Fr. John A. Lynch
Accused in a lawsuit[s] between 2020-2022 of child sexual abuse. Died in 1961. Longtime pastor of St. Teresa's in San Francisco.
Fr. Philip E. McCrillis

Br. John Moriarty

Joined the Christian Brothers in 1951. Accused in a 2003 lawsuit of abusing a 17-year-old boy 1975-76 at Christian Brothers Retreat House at St. Helena CA, where he was assigned 1974-78. Plaintiff settled in late 2004 for $1.2M. Moriarty was at Wounded Brothers Project treatment center in MO as of 1/05. Per a 5/06 newsletter by the San Francisco District of Christian Brothers, he was based at Mont La Salle in Napa. He died 5/9/13 at Mt. La Salle. Included on the Santa Rosa diocese's list 1/12/19. Included on the Diocese of Oakland's list in 6/19. Suit filed in 11/19 by a man claiming abuse in the 1970s as a Moreau Catholic High student in Hayward, by both Moriarty and principal Rev. Gordon Wilcox.
Fr. Guy Anthony Murnig
Fr. William S. Myers

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Fr. John J. O’Connor

Fr. Patrick J. O’Shea
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Br. Danilo Pacheco

Fr. Richard P. Presenti

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Fr. Jose F. Ribeiro
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Fr. Miles O’Brien Riley
Fr. Christian Sandholdt

Accused in a lawsuit[s] between 2020-2022 of the sexual abuse of minor[s]. Died by suicide in 1979, at age 45. Per his obituary, Sandholdt had been an assistant at St. Francis of Assisi in East Palo Alto for five years, was involved with the charismatic movement and worked with teenagers. Prior to his priesthood, he was a teacher at John Muir and Encinal High Schools in Alameda.
Fr. Francis Joseph Scanlon

Accused in a lawsuit filed sometime between 2020-2022 of sexually abusing an altar boy at St. Andrew's in Oakland in about 1959-1964. The abuse allegedly included forced oral sex and sodomy and occurred numerous times. News accounts in 2022 refer to Scanlon as John Francis; per past news articles and the Official Catholic Directory, his name was Francis Joseph. The 1960 Directory shows him as Absent on Leave, after which he was transferred to a Mill Valley parish. Scanlon died in 1980.
Fr. Carl Anthony Schipper

Fr. Lawrence Gerard Smith

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Francisco CA
Br. Wellington Joseph Stanislaus
Fr. Jose Superiaso

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Fr. Henry J. Trainor

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Fr. Leo Donald Tubbs

Fr. Robert M. Van Handel

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Fr. Milton T. Walsh

Br. Peter J. Yost
