Monsignor Daniel Martin – Diocese of Erie

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1943 Ordained
1943 – 1945 Sacred Heart Church, Sharon, PA
1945 – 1962 Erie Cathedral Preparatory High School, Erie, PA
1948-1962 Assistant Headmaster, Erie Cathedral Preparatory High School, Erie, PA
1950 – 1962 Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA (chaplain)
1962 – 1970 St. Boniface Church, Kersey, PA
1962 – 1970 Elk County Christian High School, St. Mary’s, PA (Headmaster)
1970 – 1974 St. Joseph’s Church, Oil City, PA
1974 – 1986 St. George’s Church, Erie, PA
1984 Given the title of Monsignor
1986 – 1987 Retired, in residence at Mount Calvary, Erie, PA
1987 Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA (chaplain)
2003 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:
  • Monsignor Daniel Martin was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on one occasion in approximately 1964 when the boy was approximately 15 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Monsignor Martin was assigned to Elk County Christian High School in St. Mary’s, Pennsylvania, as its headmaster, and the boy was a student at the school. The sexual abuse occurred in Monsignor Martin’s office at the school.
  • The sexual abuse by Monsignor Martin included the following: Monsignor Martin made the boy pull down the boy’s pants and underwear; Monsignor Martin made the boy lay across Monsignor Martin’s lap; Monsignor Martin spanked and fondled the boy’s bare buttocks; and Monsignor Martin fondled and masturbated the boy’s penis until the boy ejaculated.
  • The claim, made against Monsignor Martin and other abusers within the Diocese of Erie, settled in 2021 in the low six figures