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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.
The Bishop Marshall Center is located in St. Michael’s Cathedral in Springfield. [7] In a 2007 civil lawsuit against the Diocese of Burlington, the personal file of Alfred Willis, a diocesan priest, showed that Marshall transferred him to a different parish after receiving sexual abuse complaints. On February 27, 1978, three parents from St ...
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 and Bishop Edward Rice are listed as defendants in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Springfield regarding purported abuse of children dating back as far as the late 1960s by ...
The Catholic Center of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018.
Bishop Pavol Hnilica rehabilitated multiple-convicted Austrian priest Joseph Seidnitzer in 1991.. Joseph Seidnitzer (Stainz, 1920 – Innsbruck, 1993), was an Austrian priest, missionary, and the founder and director of Priesterwerk, who was convicted multiple times for sexual abuse of boys aged 18 and over (at the time, people younger than 21 years were considered underage). [9]
[6] Author William Byrne described O'Reilly as a supportive manager of his priests, allowing them to make decisions on their own. [2] Patrick O’Reilly died in Springfield of nephritis on May 28, 1892; businesses in Springfield closed for the day. [1] He was buried in the vault below St. Michael's Cathedral in Springfield.
Lavigne has been at the center of the Priest Abuse Scandal in the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts with about 40 claims of sexual abuse of minors placed against him. The Diocese has paid out large cash settlements to numerous people purported to have been molested by Lavigne. He was removed from ministry by Bishop John A. Marshall in 1991.