Monsignor Joseph P. Kelly – Diocese of Scranton

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1966 Ordained in the Diocese of Scranton
1967 Ascension Church, Williamsport, PA
1968 – 1969 St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Archbald, PA
1970 – 1975 College Seminary of St. Pius X, Dalton, PA
1974 – 1978 “Boy Scouts Director”
1974 – 1978 N.C.C.M. Director”
1975 – 1979 “Procuratores et Advocati”
1975 – 1978 “N.C.C.W. Director”
1975 – 1980 “Senate of Priests”
1975 – 1978 “Holy Name Society”
1976 – 1980 “St. Michael’s School for Boys,” Hoban Heights, PA
1977 – 1980 College Seminary of St. Pius X, Dalton, PA
1981 – 1985 St. Catherine of Siena Church, Moscow, PA
1984 – 1985 “Pro-Synodal Judges”
1986 Not indexed
1987 – 1988 St. Stanislaus Church, Scranton, PA
1988 – 1998 Holy Rosary Church, Scranton, PA
1991 – 1998 Camp St. Andrew, Tunkhannock, PA
1999 Not indexed
2000 – 2006 Camp St. Andrew, Tunkhannock, PA
2001 – 2005 Nativity of Our Lord Church, Scranton, PA
2006 Catholic Social Services
2006 St. Nicholas Church, Wilkes-Barre, 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:
  • Monsignor Kelly retired in 2006.
  • Monsignor Joseph P. Kelly was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least eight occasions in approximately 1978 when the boy was approximately 13 years old. The sexual abuse took place at St. Michael’s School for Boys in Hoban Heights, Pennsylvania, where the boy resided at the time. The sexual abuse by Monsignor Kelly including Monsignor Kelly performing oral sex on the boy and Monsignor Kelly masturbating himself in front of the boy.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the mid-five figures.