Father Leo Burchianti – Diocese of Pittsburgh

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1964 Ordained in the Diocese of Pittsburgh
1964 – 1966 St. Joseph Church, Natrona, PA
1966 – 1968 Immaculate Conception Church, Bloomfield, PA
1968 – 1973 Our Lady of Grace Church, Scott Township, PA
1973 – 1979 St. James Church, Sewickley, PA
1979 – 1980 St. Philip Neri Church, Donora, PA
1980 – 1981 Leave of Absence
1981 St. Rosalia Church, Greenfield, PA
1981 – 1993 St. Joseph Church, West Aliquippa, PA
Sources:
  • Report I of the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury, released by the Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General, dated July 27, 2018; and
  • The Official Catholic Directory, Kenedy & Sons

Father Burchianti is not indexed in the 1994 or 1995 Official Catholic Directory. From 1996 to 2007, Father Burchianti is indexed in the Directory at St. John Vianney Manor in Pittsburgh. According to the Grand Jury report, Father Burchianti “withdrew from ministry” in 2003.

Summary:
  • Father Leo Burchianti was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on two occasions in approximately 1975 when the male child was approximately fourteen years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Burchianti was assigned to St. James Church in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. The boy was not a parishioner of St. James Church. Father Burchianti met the boy at a restaurant and asked the boy to come to Father Burchianti’s residence at the rectory near St. James Church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Burchianti included the following: Father Burchianti fondled the boy’s penis and testicles; Father Burchianti provided the boy with alcohol to drink; and Father Burchianti sodomized the boy.
  • The claim settled in April 2020 in the low five figures.