Father Salvatore Luzzi – Diocese of Erie

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1962 Ordained in the Diocese of Erie
1962 – 1968 Venango Catholic High School, Oil City, PA
1968 – 1979 St. Mark’s Seminary, Erie, PA
1979 – 1994 St. Joseph Church, Warren, PA
1991 – 1994 Warren Deanery, Warren, PA
Sources:
  • Report I of the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury, released by the Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General, dated July 27, 2018; and
  • The Official Catholic Directory, Kenedy & Sons
Summary:
  • According to the Grand Jury report, Father Luzzi was placed on “sick leave” in 1994, and his priestly faculties were removed in 1995.
  • Father Salvatore Luzzi was accused of sexually abusing a male on at least six occasions from approximately 1978 to 1979 when the male was approximately eighteen to nineteen years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Luzzi was assigned to St. Mark’s Seminary in Erie, Pennsylvania, and the male was a student at the seminary. Father Luzzi served as the male’s spiritual director. The sexual abuse took place in Father Luzzi’s residence on the campus of the seminary.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Luzzi included the following: Father Luzzi fondled the male’s genitals, skin-on-skin, and kissed the male on his face and lips.
  • The claim settled in November 2019 in the low six figures.