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List of Priests Accused of Abuse
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List of Accused Priests
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The list of names of priests who have served in the Diocese of Steubenville and have been credibly accused of at least one act of sexual abuse of a minor consists of:
- Cletus Altermatt, suspended from ministry in 1962 (deceased);
- Elwood Bernas, suspended from ministry in 1986;
- Kenneth P. Bonadies, suspended from ministry Sept. 11, 2018, by the Archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut, and added to their credibly accused list in April 2021 (deceased);
- Robert A. Brown (deceased);
- Vincent Danko, suspended from ministry in 1971 (deceased);
- H. Christopher Foxhoven, suspended from ministry Oct. 27, 2018, dismissed from the clerical state by Pope Francis March 26, 2020;
- Mark J. Froehlich, removed from ministry May 22, 2018; the investigation has deemed these accusations credible but not substantiated;
- Harold Goschke, suspended from ministry in 1957 (deceased);
- Kenneth Harris, suspended from ministry in 1963 (deceased);
- Michael Hellmer, suspended from ministry in 1989 (deceased);
- John “Jack” Holmes, suspended from ministry in 1989 (deceased);
- Anthony Jablonowski, suspended from ministry in 2003, dismissed from the clerical state by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006;
- Robert F. Marrer, deceased;
- Joseph A. Martinkosky, suspended from ministry in 1991;
- John Nadzam, suspended from ministry in 2004 (deceased);
- Walter Plimmer, suspended from ministry in 1956 (deceased);
- Francis Rothbauer, suspended from ministry in 1998 (deceased);
- Joel Wright, pre-theology seminarian, who never became a candidate for ordination; dismissed as a seminarian in January 2016, convicted in July 2016;
- Gary Zalenski, suspended from ministry in 2007, dismissed from the clerical state as a result of an ecclesiastical trial in 2014.
Any religious order priests were not included, because they are under the jurisdiction of their religious order superiors.