Father George Parme – Diocese of Pittsburgh

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1948 Ordained in the Diocese of Pittsburgh
1949 – 1952 St. Peter’s Church, Butler, PA
1953 – 1956 St. Aloysius Church, Wilmerding, PA
1957 – 1958 Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Midland, OH
1959 Most Holy Name of Jesus Church, Pittsburgh, PA
1960 St. Patrick’s Church, Pittsburgh, PA
1961 – 1963 St. Catherine of Siena Church, Pittsburgh, PA;
1964 St. Joseph’s Church, Pittsburgh, PA
1965 – 1966 Mount Nazareth Academy, Pittsburgh, PA
1967 – 1968 Provincial Motherhouse of the St. Joseph’s Province of the
Sisters of Holy Family of Nazareth of Western Pennsylvania (chaplain), Pittsburgh, PA
1969 Mother of Good Counsel Church, Pittsburgh, PA
1970 – 1974 St. Louis Church, West Sunbury, PA
1975 – 1989 St. Cecilia’s Church, Glassport, PA
1990 – 1997 St. John Vianney Manor, Pittsburgh, PA
1991 – 2002 “Retired”
Source:
  • The Official Catholic Directory, Kenedy & Sons

(The years listed above are the publication years of the Official Catholic Directory. According to the Directory, the assignments provided for a given year are effective as of January 1 of that year. This means that a priest listed in the Directory for a given year at a parish or school was likely at the same assignment for at least part of the previous year as well.)

Summary:
  • Father Parme died in 2002.
  • Father George Parme was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least three occasions from approximately 1958 to 1959 when the boy was approximately 13 to 14 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Parme was assigned to Most Holy Name Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the boy served as an altar boy at the church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Parme took place in Father Parme’s car and inside Most Holy Name Church. The sexual abuse included the following: Father Parme reached into the boy’s pants and fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, skin-on-skin.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the low five figures.