Priest Assignment Records and Case Details Released

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Detailed information on the assignment records and claim history of these abusers, together with sources, can be accessed by reading below as well as in the pdfs lnked above.

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Father John Stonebridge – Diocese of Brooklyn

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1939 – 1946 St. Peter Claver's Church in Brooklyn, NY
1947 – 1970 Holy Rosary Church in Brooklyn, NY
1971 – 1982 Sacred Heart Church in East Glendale, NY
1983 – 1996 Sacred Heart Church (pastor emeritus) in East Glendale, NY
1996 – 2000 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.)

Father Stonebridge died in June, 2003.

Father Gerard Sudol – Archdiocese of Newark

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1980 Ordained in the Archdiocese of Newark
1981 – 1986 Holy Family Church, Nutley, NJ
1987 – 1994 St. Francis Church, Ridgefield Park, NJ
1995 Not indexed
1996 – 2000 St. Anne’s Church, Jersey City, NJ;
1997 – 2002 St. Francis Hospital (chaplain), Jersey City, NJ
• a.k.a. St. Francis Medical Center
• a.k.a. Franciscan Health System of New Jersey
1999 – 2002 St. Mary’s Hospital (chaplain), Hoboken, NJ
2001 – 2002 Holy Rosary Church, Jersey City, NJ
2001 – 2002 Bon Secours New Jersey Health System (chaplain), Jersey City, NJ
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.)

Father Sudol is not indexed after 2002.

Summary:
  • Father Gerard Sudol was accused of sexually abusing a female minor child on one occasion in approximately 1985 when the girl was approximately 13 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Sudol was assigned to Holy Family Church in Nutley, New Jersey, and the girl was a student at the affiliated Holy Family School.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Sudol took place during a class field trip to New York. While Father Sudol was swimming in a pool with the girl, Father Sudol reached inside the girl’s bathing suit and penetrated her vagina and rectum with his finger.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the mid five figures.

Father Bernard L. Sullivan – Archdiocese of Boston

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1961 Ordained
1961 – 1964 St. Clare’s Church, Braintree, MA
1965 – 1967 Blessed Sacrament Church, Walpole, MA
1968 – 1976 St. Catherine of Genoa Church, Somerville, MA
1977 – 1978 Chaplain, Catholic Memorial High School, Boston, MA
1979 – 1980 St. Paul’s Church, Wellesley, MA
1981 – 1985 St. Jerome’s Church, Weymouth, MA
1985 Our Lady of Grace Church, Chelsea, MA
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 Sullivan died in 1985.
  • Father Bernard L. Sullivan was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least six occasions from approximately 1970 to 1973 when the boy was approximately 10 to 13 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Sullivan was assigned to St. Catherine of Genoa Church in Somerville, Massachusetts, and the boy was an altar boy at the church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Sullivan included the following: Father Sullivan told the boy to take all of his clothes off; Father Sullivan made the boy sit on Father Sullivan’s lap; and Father Sullivan masturbated the boy.
  • The Archdiocese of Boston agreed to settle the claim in 2021.
Complaint:

Father John T. Sullivan – Diocese of Manchester, Diocese of Grand Rapids, Diocese of Gallup, Diocese of Phoenix

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1942 Ordained
1943 Holy Angels Church in Westville, NH
1944 St. Mary’s Church in Dover, NH
1945 St. Thomas Aquinas' Church in Derry, NH
1946—1947 St. Patrick’s Church in Nashua, NH
1948—1949 St. Mary’s Church in Claremont, NH
1950—1952 St. Kieran's Church in Berlin, NH
1953—1956 Holy Angels Church Westville, NH
1957—1958 Absent on Leave – Diocese of Manchester
1959—1960 Holy Spirit Church Grand Rapids, MI
1961 Absent on Leave – Diocese of Manchester
1962 Madre de Dios Church in Winslow, AZ
1963—1964 St. Francis' Church in Seligman, AZ
1965 St. Cecilia's Church in Clarkdale, AZ
1966—1968 St. Mary’s Church in Kingman, AZ
1969—1970 St. Francis' Church in Seligman, AZ
1971—1974 Our Lady of the Lake Church in Lake Havasu City, AZ
1975—1980 St. Margaret Mary's Church in Bullhead, AZ
1981—1984 Not Indexed
1985—1986 Retired – residing in Concord, NH
1987—1988 Retired – residing in Phoenix, AZ
1989—1998 Retired – residing in Nazareth House, San Diego, CA
1999 Retired – residing in The Cloisters, San Diego, CA
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.)

Father Sullivan died on September 19, 1999.

  1. Father T. Raymond Sullivan – Archdiocese of Boston
  2. Father Patrick J. Tague – Archdiocese of Boston
  3. Father Arthur Taraborelli – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  4. Father Toribio Villacastin – Archdiocese of Hartford
  5. Father Robert J. Vonnahmen – Diocese of Belleville
  6. Father Michael Wempe – Archdiocese of Los Angeles
  7. Father Michael Weston – Archdiocese of Chicago
  8. Father Harold Robert White – Diocese of Denver
  9. Father Benjamin D. Wysolmerski – Diocese of Burlington
  10. Father Theodore Zabowski – Diocese of Pittsburgh