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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 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 ...
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]
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]
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 ...
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 ...
On June 16, 1921, O'Leary was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts by Pope Benedict XV. [4] He received his episcopal consecration on September 8, 1921, from Archbishop Arthur Alfred Sinnott, with Bishops Michael Curley and George Guertin serving as co-consecrators. [4]