Monsignor Thomas M. Jordan – Diocese of Scranton

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1948 Ordained in the Diocese of Scranton
1949 – 1950 Ascension Church, Williamsport, PA
1951 St. Gabriel’s Church, Hazleton, PA
1952 – 1964 St. Ignatius Church, Kingston, PA
1959 – 1967 “Procuratores et Advocati”
1965 – 1968 Central Catholic High School, Kingston, PA
1967 – 1968 Holy Saviour Church (in residence), Wilkes-Barre, PA
1969 – 1970 St. Basil’s Church, Dushore, PA
1971 – 1977 Gate of Heaven Church, Dallas, PA
1978 – 1987 Church of the Epiphany, Sayre, PA
1979 – 1986 “Dean for Bradford and Sullivan Counties”
1984 – 1986 “Council of Priests”
1987 – 1989 St. Mary of Mount Carmel Church
1989 “Dean for Dunmore”
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 Jordan died in September 1990.
  • Monsignor Thomas Jordan was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least three occasions from approximately 1979 to 1980 when the boy was approximately 6 to 7 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Monsignor Jordan was assigned to Church of the Epiphany in Sayre, Pennsylvania.
  • The sexual abuse by Monsignor Jordan took place in the elementary school affiliated with Church of the Epiphany. The sexual abuse included the following: Monsignor Jordan fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, skin-on-skin, and forced the boy to perform oral sex on Monsignor Jordan.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the low six figures.