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William Draper Byrne (born September 26, 1964) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts since 2020. He is known for taking over the diocese after the revelation of widespread clergy child sex abuse and the subsequent cover-ups.
Pope Pius XI in October 1923 renamed the Diocese of Springfield as the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts. This was to avoid confusion with the newly erected Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. [9] In 1928, O'Leary began planning the new Our Lady of the Elms College in Chicopee to be first Catholic college for women in western Massachusetts.
The Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau announced in 2013 that it had received a credible accusation of sexual abuse of a minor against Reverend Walter C. Craig, who died in 1971. The alleged assault occurred during the 1960s. [18] In April 2019, the diocese released a list of 19 clergy with credible accusations of sexual abuse of minor. [19]
Sep. 17—Boys from Joplin and Carthage and a boy and a girl from Neosho are among 11 alleged victims of past sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials cited in a lawsuit filed last week against ...
The Catholic Center of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018.
Catholic pastor had given the pop star permission to shoot her music video for ‘Feather’ at Our Lady of Mount Carmel-Annunciation in Brooklyn Priest stripped of duties for letting Sabrina ...
St. Michael's Cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts, United States, established in 1847. In 1974, the church and rectory were included as contributing properties in the Quadrangle–Mattoon Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2]
Fr. Burgess was nominated for Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield in the late Spring of 2021, [11] and after a nominating synod was officially announced as one of the three finalists on October 16, 2021, passing through on the third ballot. [12] On December 11, 2021, he was elected as Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield on the ...