If you find an error in the data or would like to suggest changes, contact us.
Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina
Bishop: Robert E. Guglielmone, installed May 25, 2009 | Published list
March 2019
Date List Was Originally Released
44
Names Released
198,360
Catholic Population
Roy Aiken
Status: Deceased - 07/04/2006
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1946
Assignment history not reported
Augustine "Austin" Park
Status: Deceased - 2013
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan or Order Priests with a Credible Allegation of Chil... mored Sexual Misconduct or Abuse Outside the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1955
Assignment history not reported
John Bench Jr.
Status: Deceased – 06/06/2009
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1964
Assignment history not reported
Peter Berberich
Status: Deceased – 03/20/1997
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1947
Assignment history not reported
William "Bill" Richardson
Status: Left the Catholic priesthood in June 1983
Appeared under the heading: “Priests who are Listed by Virtue of a Class Action Settlemen... moret Payment as Determined by an Arbitrator”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1982
Assignment history not reported
William Burn
Status: Deceased – 05/29/2009
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1956
Assignment history not reported
Juan Carlos Castano - Mejia
Status: Served prison sentence and was then deported
Appeared under the heading: “Religious Order or Visiting Priests with a Credible Allegati... moreon of Child Sexual Misconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1991
Assignment history not reported
Roger Collerett
Status: Unknown - believed to have returned to Canada
Appeared under the heading: “Religious Order or Visiting Priests with a Credible Allegati... moreon of Child Sexual Misconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1943
Assignment history not reported
Eugene Condon
Status: Deceased – 05/24/2014
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1956
Assignment history not reported
Basil Congro
Status: Placed on administrative leave 09/23/2002 and not allowed to function as a Catholic priest
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1978
Assignment history not reported
Raymond DuMouchel
Status: Deceased – 09/10/2006
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1956
Assignment history not reported
John Eccleston
Status: Deceased – 02/09/2012
Appeared under the heading: “Priests who are Listed by Virtue of a Class Action Settlemen... moret Payment as Determined by an Arbitrator”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1955
Assignment history not reported
Thomas Evatt
Status: Deceased – 07/18/2003
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1976
Assignment history not reported
Daniel Francis Murphy
Status: Deceased – 07/21/1980
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1945
Assignment history not reported
George Frederick Moynihan
Status: Deceased – 08/30/2004
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1974
Assignment history not reported
Gabriel "Gabe" Smith
Status: Retired from active ministry – 12/31/2018
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan or Order Priests with a Credible Allegation of Chil... mored Sexual Misconduct or Abuse Outside the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1982
Assignment history not reported
John Gallagher
Status: Deceased (1976)
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan or Order Priests with a Credible Allegation of Chil... mored Sexual Misconduct or Abuse Outside the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1947
Assignment history not reported
Justin Goodwin
Status: Deceased – 12/25/1995
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1940
Assignment history not reported
Frederick Hopwood
Status: Deceased – 04/30/17
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1951
Assignment history not reported
Leon Joseph Hubacz
Status: Deceased – 06/28/1999
Appeared under the heading: “Priests who are Listed by Virtue of a Class Action Settlemen... moret Payment as Determined by an Arbitrator”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1943
Assignment history not reported
Robert Joseph Kelly
Status: Unknown
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan or Order Priests with a Credible Allegation of Chil... mored Sexual Misconduct or Abuse Outside the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1974
Assignment history not reported
Ernst Kennedy
Status: Deceased – 06/09/2017
Appeared under the heading: “Priests who are Listed by Virtue of a Class Action Settlemen... moret Payment as Determined by an Arbitrator”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1956
Assignment history not reported
Francis Landwermeyer
Status: Deceased – 09/05/2018
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan or Order Priests with a Credible Allegation of Chil... mored Sexual Misconduct or Abuse Outside the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1966
Assignment history not reported
James McElroy
Status: Deceased – 07/05/1971
Appeared under the heading: “Priests who are Listed by Virtue of a Class Action Settlemen... moret Payment as Determined by an Arbitrator”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1920
Assignment history not reported
Frederick McLean McLean
Status: Deceased – 08/26/2010
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1944
Assignment history not reported
John Mitchell
Status: Deceased – 12/18/1996
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan or Order Priests with a Credible Allegation of Chil... mored Sexual Misconduct or Abuse Outside the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1938
Assignment history not reported
Joseph Murphy
Status: Deceased – 08/24/1998
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1943
Assignment history not reported
James Nyhan
Status: Dismissed from ministry by the Archdiocese of Boston
Appeared under the heading: “Religious Order or Visiting Priests with a Credible Allegati... moreon of Child Sexual Misconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1973
Assignment history not reported
Cesare Palatore Belfiore
Status: Unknown – believed to have returned to Costa Rica
Appeared under the heading: “Religious Order or Visiting Priests with a Credible Allegati... moreon of Child Sexual Misconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1967
Assignment history not reported
Anthony Plikunas
Status: Deceased – 11/28/1973
Appeared under the heading: “Priests who are Listed by Virtue of a Class Action Settlemen... moret Payment as Determined by an Arbitrator”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1933
Assignment history not reported
Walter Pringle Lee
Status: Deceased – April 1981
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1962
Assignment history not reported
James Robert Owens-Howard
Status: Deceased – 12/01/2015
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1957
Assignment history not reported
Gerald Ryfinski
Status: Laicized – April 2007
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1990
Assignment history not reported
Paul Seitz
Status: Retired 06/01/2002 – under restrictions
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1958
Assignment history not reported
James Sharples
Status: Deceased – 11/28/1974
Appeared under the heading: “Religious Order or Visiting Priests with a Credible Allegati... moreon of Child Sexual Misconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1946
Assignment history not reported
Charles Sheedy
Status: Deceased – 07/06/1989
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1937
Assignment history not reported
John Simonin
Status: Deceased – 07/15/2010
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1947
Assignment history not reported
Robert Spangenberg
Status: Deceased – 12/23/2006
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan or Order Priests with a Credible Allegation of Chil... mored Sexual Misconduct or Abuse Outside the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1974
Assignment history not reported
Frederick Suggs
Status: Deceased – 08/26/1998
Appeared under the heading: “Priests who are Listed by Virtue of a Class Action Settlemen... moret Payment as Determined by an Arbitrator”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1946
Assignment history not reported
Creston J. Tawes
Status: Deceased – 08/04/1980
Appeared under the heading: “Priests who are Listed by Virtue of a Class Action Settlemen... moret Payment as Determined by an Arbitrator”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1959
Assignment history not reported
Thomas Tierney
Status: Deceased – 12/24/1972
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan or Order Priests with a Credible Allegation of Chil... mored Sexual Misconduct or Abuse Outside the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1924
Assignment history not reported
Hayden Vaverek
Status: Laicized – May 2016
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation of Child Sexual ... moreMisconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1994
Assignment history not reported
Anthony William Johnson
Status: Deceased – 03/01/2012
Appeared under the heading: “Religious Order or Visiting Priests with a Credible Allegati... moreon of Child Sexual Misconduct or Abuse within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1962
Assignment history not reported
Louis Williamson
Status: Deceased (1962)
Appeared under the heading: “Diocesan Priests with a Credible Allegation ofChild Sexual M... moreisconduct or Abuse2 within the Diocese of Charleston”
Birth Year: Not reported
Ordination year: 1938
Assignment history not reported
If you find an error in the data or would like to suggest changes, contact us.