Assignment Record:

Dates	Assignment
1956	Ordained
1956 – 1965	St. Cosmas and Damian Church, Punxsutawney, PA
1965 – 1970	Elk County Christian High School, St. Mary’s, PA
1971	Immaculate Conception Church, Brookville, PA
1972	Our Lady Queen of the Americas Church, Conneaut Lake, PA
1970 – 1976	Leave of Absence (Graduate and Student Counselor, Notre Dame, IN)
1976 – 1977	Leave of Absence (St. Joseph University, Philadelphia, PA)
1977 – 1978	Leave of Absence (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD)
1978 – 1981	St. Therese Church, Shinglehouse, PA
1971 – 1981	Sacred Heart Mission, Genesee, PA
1981 – 1983	Leave of Absence (residing in Raleigh, NC)
1983 – 1988	St. Agnes Church, Morrisdale, PA
1988 – 1990	Leave of Absence (“Outside the Diocese”)
1990 – 2000	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Sykesville, PA
2000	Retired

• Father Presley is not indexed after the 2000 Official Catholic Directory.
• Father Presley died in 2012.
• Father William Presley was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least ten occasions from approximately 1965 to 1966 when the boy was approximately 17 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Presley worked as a teacher at Elk County Christian High School in St. Mary’s, Pennsylvania, and the boy was a student at the school. The sexual abuse by Father Presley occurred in Father Presley’s car and at a residence on the campus of the school.
• The sexual abuse by Father Presley included the following: Father Presley performed oral sex on the boy until the boy ejaculated; and Father Presley forced the boy to perform oral sex on Father Presley until Father Presley ejaculated.
• The claim, made against Father Presley and other abusers within the Diocese of Erie, settled in 2021 in the low six figures.