Assignment Record:
| Dates | Assignment |
|---|---|
| Approx. 1965 | Ordained in the Diocese of Camden |
| 1966 | St. John’s Church, Collingswood, NJ |
| 1967 – 1968 | St. Mary’s Church, Gloucester, NJ |
| 1969 – 1973 | Queen of Heaven Church, Cherry Hill, NJ |
| 1974 – 1979 | St. Agnes Church, Blackwood, NJ |
| 1980 – 1985 | St. Margaret’s Church, Woodbury Heights, NJ |
| 1986 – 1989 | St. Charles Borromeo Church, Washington Township, NJ |
| 1990 – 1994 | St. Rose of Lima Church, Newfield, NJ |
| 1995 – 1996 | Not indexed |
| 1997 – 2010 | 1997 – 2010 |
| 2011 – 2016 | “Retired” (listed as living in Portsmouth, RI) |
Sources:
- 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 Dunphy died in 2016.
- Father Robert Dunphy was accused of sexually abusing a male as a minor child on two occasions from approximately 1971 when the male child was approximately twelve years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Dunphy was assigned to Queen of Heaven Church in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and the boy was an altar boy at the church and a student at Queen of Heaven School, the elementary school associated with Queen of Heaven Church. The sexual abuse took place in Brigantine, New Jersey, in the home of a teacher at Queen of Heaven School.
- The sexual abuse by Father Dunphy included the following: on two occasions, Father Dunphy sodomized the boy.
- The claim settled in December 2019 in the low six figures.
