Father Gerard Sudol – Archdiocese of Newark

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1980 Ordained in the Archdiocese of Newark
1981 – 1986 Holy Family Church, Nutley, NJ
1987 – 1994 St. Francis Church, Ridgefield Park, NJ
1995 Not indexed
1996 – 2000 St. Anne’s Church, Jersey City, NJ;
1997 – 2002 St. Francis Hospital (chaplain), Jersey City, NJ
• a.k.a. St. Francis Medical Center
• a.k.a. Franciscan Health System of New Jersey
1999 – 2002 St. Mary’s Hospital (chaplain), Hoboken, NJ
2001 – 2002 Holy Rosary Church, Jersey City, NJ
2001 – 2002 Bon Secours New Jersey Health System (chaplain), Jersey City, NJ
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.)

Father Sudol is not indexed after 2002.

Summary:
  • Father Gerard Sudol was accused of sexually abusing a female minor child on one occasion in approximately 1985 when the girl was approximately 13 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Sudol was assigned to Holy Family Church in Nutley, New Jersey, and the girl was a student at the affiliated Holy Family School.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Sudol took place during a class field trip to New York. While Father Sudol was swimming in a pool with the girl, Father Sudol reached inside the girl’s bathing suit and penetrated her vagina and rectum with his finger.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the mid five figures.