Father Patrick J. Healy – Diocese of Erie

Assignment Record:

YearsAssignment
1966 Ordained in the Diocese of Erie
1967 – 1972 Ss Cosmas and Damian Church, Punxsutawney, PA
1970 – 1972 “Newman Apostolate,” Indiana State College, Punxsutawney, PA
1973 – 1976 Sacred Heart Church, Sharon, PA
1977 – 1978 Immaculate Conception Church, Osceola Mills, PA
1979 – 1980 St. Joseph’s Church, Warren, PA
1981 – 1982 Holy Cross Church, Fairview, PA
1983 – 1988 St. Bibiana Church, Galeton, PA
1989 – 1995 Immaculate Heart Church, Mercer, PA
1996 – 2002 State Correctional Facility (chaplain), Mercer, PA
1998 – 1999 St. Catherine’s Church, DuBois, PA
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 Healy died in 1999. It appears that Father Healy was erroneously listed in the Official Catholic Directory as serving at the State Correctional Facility in Mercer until 2002.
  • Father Patrick J. Healy was accused of sexually abusing a female on over 100 occasions over a period of several years beginning in approximately 1966 when the girl was approximately 17 years old. At the time the sexual abuse began, Father Healy was serving at Saints Cosmas and Damian Church in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and the girl was a student at the affiliated Saints Cosmas and Damian High School in Punxsutawney.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Healy initially took place in the rectory affiliated with Saints Cosmas and Damian Church and included the following: Father Healy fondled the girl’s breasts and vagina and forced the girl to perform oral sex on Father Healy.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the low six figures. .