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These are the priests 'credibly accused' of child sex abuse by the archdiocese

The list was released today by the archdiocese in response to calls for more "accountability and transparency" by the Catholic Church

The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston named 40 priests it deemed "credibly accused" sexual abuse of a minor dating back to 1950. 

The list includes 23 diocesan priests, 13 religious order priests and four visiting priests.

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The priests named are:

Diocesan Priests

Nicholas Cornelius Antle 

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1934
Ordained: 1959
Status: Retired 1990, removed from Ministry 2011, deceased 2016
Assignments: Catholic Chaplain Corps; Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston; St. Patrick, Galveston; St. Pius V, Pasadena; St. Rose of Lima, Houston (in residence); St. Vincent de Paul, Houston (in residence); Tribunal

Robert Ralph Barzyk

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1932
Ordination: 1958
Status: Retired 1993, removed from Ministry 1994, deceased 2007
Assignments: Holy Family, Wharton; Holy Name, Houston; Holy Rosary, Rosenberg; Newman Center, Wharton Junior College; Sacred Heart, Galveston; St. Joseph, Baytown; St. Jude, Highlands

David Emmett Burn

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1935
Ordained: 1961
Status: Retired 1992, Removed from Ministry 1992, deceased 2003
Assignments: All Saints, Houston; Annunciation, Houston; Christ the King, Houston (in residence); Our Mother of Mercy, Port Bolivar; Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston; Sacred Heart, Galveston; St. Francis de Sales, Houston; St. James, Port Arthur; St. Mary, La Porte

Moises Cabrera

Diocesan: Tuguegarao, Philippines, Incardinated Galveston-Houston 1985, Incardinated Manila 1994
Birth Year: 1946
Ordained: 1969    
Status: Removed from Ministry 1988
Assignments: Prince of Peace, Houston; St. Ambrose, Houston; St. Augustine, Houston; St. Michael, Houston; St. Rose of Lima, Houston; St. Thomas the Apostle, Huntsville

Allen Ray Doga 

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston      
Birth Year: 1925    
Ordained: 1949    
Status: Deceased 1999
Assignments: Prince of Peace, Houston; Sacred Heart, Galveston; St. Edward, Spring; St. Frances Cabrini, Houston; St. Pius V, Pasadena

George Patrick Dougherty

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston      
Birth Year: 1925    
Ordained: 1967    
Status: Removed from Ministry 1996, deceased 2002
Assignments: Christ the King, Houston; Notre Dame, Houston; Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission, Navasota; Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston; Sacred Heart, Palestine; St. Augustine, Houston; St. Jerome, Houston; St. Patrick, Navasota

Richard Edelin

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1953
Ordained: 1979
Status: Removed from public ministry 2013
Assignments: Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston; Sacred Heart, Conroe; Sacred Heart, Pattison; St. Francis de Sales, Houston; St. John Vianney, Houston; St. Thomas More, Houston

Carlos (Charles) Guerra 

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1953    
Ordained: 1981    
Status: Removed from ministry 1984, left priesthood 1987
Assignments: Epiphany of the Lord, Katy; St. Benedict the Abbott, Houston; St. Cyril of Alexandria, Houston

Rodrigo J. Guillermo       

Diocesan: Manila, Philippines, Incardinated Galveston-Houston 1979
Birth Year: 1928
Ordained: 1965
Status: Retired 1994, removed from Ministry 1994, deceased 2015
Assignments: Catholic Chaplain Corps; Our Lady of Fatima, Galena Park (in residence); Queen of Peace, Houston; Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston; St. Charles Borromeo, Houston; St. Jerome, Clute; St. Mathias the Apostle, Magnolia; St. Thomas More, Houston (in residence)

Alphonse Rodrigue Hemond

Religious: La Salette Fathers, Incardinated Galveston-Houston 1986
Birth Year: 1916      
Ordained: 1949    
Status: Retired 1990, deceased 1990
Assignments: Christ the King, Houston; Most Holy Trinity, Trinity; Our Lady of Lourdes, Hitchcock; Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston; St. Dominic, Houston; St. Francis of the Tejas, Crockett; St. John, Hungerford; St. Joseph, Brazoria; St. Mary, Cleveland

Stephen R. Horn

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1944
Ordained: 1973    
Status: Removed from Ministry 2008  
Assignments: Christ the King, Houston; St. Luke the Evangelist, Houston; St. Mary Cathedral Basilica, Galveston; St. Mary of the  Miraculous Medal, Texas City; St. Theresa, Houston

William Jimenez    

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston      
Birth Year: 1927
Ordained: 1953    
Status: Removed from Ministry 1959
Assignments: Resurrection, Houston; St. Mary Cathedral Basilica, Galveston

Joseph Giles Leduc

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1929
Ordination: 1955
Status: Deceased 1981
Assignments: Annunciation, Houston; Assumption, Houston; Christ the King, Houston; Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston; St. Dominic, Houston; St. Joseph, Baytown; St. Mary, Port Arthur; St. Philip Neri, Houston; St. Pius V, Pasadena; St. Vincent de Paul, Houston

Jesse S. Linam

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1935
Ordained: 1961
Status: Retired 1998
Assignments: Christ the King, Houston; Holy Rosary, Rosenberg; Newman Center, Galveston; Queen of Peace, Houston; Sacred Heart, Galveston; St. Ambrose, Houston; St. Andrew, Channelview; St. Henry, Freeport; St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Freeport; Sts. Peter and Paul, Bellville

Denis O. Lynch      

Religious:  Discalced Carmelite, Incardinated Galveston-Houston 1972
Birth Year: 1930
Ordained: 1957      
Status: Removed from Ministry 1993, Deceased 2015
Assignments: Christ the King, Houston; Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston; St. Alphonsus, Houston; St. Mary, Humble; St. Theresa, Houston

Christopher J. Martin    

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston, Victoria
Birth Year: 1900    
Ordained: 1924    
Status: Deceased 1989
Assignments: All Saints, Houston; Annunciation, Houston; Assumption, Houston; Blessed Sacrament, Houston; Holy Cross, Bay City; Holy Name, Houston; St. Anthony Cathedral, Beaumont; St. Joseph, Bryan; St. Mary Cathedral Basilica, Galveston; St. Patrick, Galveston

Donald A.  Neumann       

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1946    
Ordination: 1972    
Status: Removed from Ministry 2013
Assignments: Catholic Chaplain Corps; Our Lady of Fatima, Galena Park; Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston (in residence); St. Gregory the Great, Houston (in residence); St. Paul the Apostle, Houston; St. Pius V, Pasadena; St. Thomas More, Houston

Lawrence O. Peguero     

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1921    
Ordained: 1947    
Status: Retired 1993, Deceased 2000
Assignments: Holy Name, Houston; Our Lady of Sorrows, Houston; Our Lady of St. John, Houston; Resurrection, Houston; St. Anne, Beaumont; St. Gregory the Great, Houston; St. Joseph, Beaumont; St. Patrick, Galveston

Dennis L. Peterson

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1947    
Ordained: 1973    
Status: Laicized 2005, Deceased 2007
Assignments: All Saints, Houston; Queen of Peace, Houston; Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston; Special Youth Services; St. Benedict the Abbott, Houston; St. Francis Cabrini, Houston; St. Jerome, Houston; St. John Neumann, Houston; St. Michael, Houston; St. Theresa, Houston

Robert C. Ramon

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1949    
Ordination: 1982    
Status: Removed from Ministry 2002, resigned from Priesthood 2002, deceased 2014
Assignments: Annunciation, Houston; Prince of Peace, Houston; Resurrection, Houston; Shrine of the True Cross, Dickinson; St. Charles Borromeo, Houston; St. Frances Cabrini, Houston; St. John of the Cross, New Caney; Tribunal

Charles Kevin Schoppe

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1925
Ordained: 1949
Status: Removed from Ministry & Retired 1992, deceased 2014
Assignments: Resurrection, Houston; St. Dominic Center; St. Mary Cathedral Basilica, Galveston; St. Piux X, Beaumont; St. Thomas More, Houston

Anthony G. Stredny 

Diocesan: Nashville, Incardinated Galveston-Houston 1971
Birth Year: 1929
Ordination: 1957
Status: Removed from Ministry 1993, Deceased 2018
Assignments: Guardian Angel, Wallis; Holy Cross, East Bernard; Holy Rosary, Rosenberg; Sacred Heart, Crosby; St. Charles Borromeo, Houston; St. Edward, Spring; St. Joseph, Brazoria; St. Joseph, New Waverly; St. Mary Cathedral Basilica, Galveston; St. Mary of the Miraculous Medal, Texas City; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Freeport; St. Mary, Cleveland; St. Mary, La Porte; St. Mary, Plantersville; St. Matthias the Apostle, Magnolia

Ivan Turic

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1940
Ordination: 1968
Status: Faculties Removed 1977
Assignments: Our Lady of Fatima, Galena Park (in residence); Port Ministry; St. Francis of Assisi, Houston; St. Michael, Lake Jackson; St. Vincent de Paul, Houston

Religious Order Priests

Antonio Gonzalez, OMI 

Religious: Oblate
Birth Year: 1927
Ordained: 1957
Status: Left Priesthood 1985
Assignments: Immaculate Conception, Houston; Immaculate Heart of Mary, Houston; Our Lady of Guadalupe, Galveston; St. Patrick, Houston; St. Thomas the Apostle, Houston

Jack Hanna, CSB    

Religious: Basilian Fathers
Birth Year: 1944
Ordained: 1974
Status: Faculties Removed 2013 (Galveston-Houston)
Assignment: St. Thomas High School, Houston

Anthony Keil (Kyles), SSJ

Religious: Josephite Fathers
Birth Year: 1894
Ordained: Check OCD
Status: Deceased 1969
Assignments: Our Mother of Mercy, Houston; St. Francis Xavier, Houston

Dennis Laroche, MM

Religious: Maryknoll
Birth Year: 1946    
Ordained: 1974    
Status: Left Priesthood 1987
Assignments: Our Lady of Fatima, Galena Park; St. Cyril of Alexandria, Houston

Pius Lawe, SVD 

Religious: Divine Word Fathers
Birth Year: 1976
Ordained: 2005
Status: Removed from Ministry 2009
Assignments: St. Mary of the Purification, Houston

Raphael O’Loughlin, CSB

Religious: Basilian Fathers
Birth Year: 1916    
Ordained: 1942    
Status: Deceased 1998
Assignments: Holy Family, Missouri City; Our Lady of Guadalupe, Rosenberg; St. Basil (Most Holy Trinity); Angleton; St. Thomas High School

Vincent Orlando, SJ

Religious: Jesuit
Birth Year: 1941    
Ordained: 1974    
Status: Removed from Ministry 2002  
Assignments: Strake Jesuit High School, Houston

Walter Dayton Salisbury, SSJ

Religious: Josephite Fathers
Ordained: 1959
Status: Removed from Ministry 1993, retired 1993
Assignments: Prairie View Newman Center; St. Nicholas, Houston; TSU Newman Center

Christopher Joseph Springer, CSSR  

Religious: Redemptorist Fathers
Birth Year: 1925
Ordained: 1952
Status: Laicized 1990
Assignments: Holy Ghost, Houston

Donald Stavinoha, OMI

Religious: Oblate
Birth Year: 1943
Ordination: 1970
Status: Removed from Ministry 1986, convicted 1988
Assignments: Immaculate Heart of Mary, Houston; St. Patrick, Houston

Gerard Martin Weber, OMI

Religious: Oblate
Birth Year: 1936    
Ordination: 1962    
Status: Removed from Ministry 2011
Assignments: Blessed Sacrament, Houston; Christian Renewal Center, Dickinson; Our Lady of Sorrows, Houston

John Benedict Weber, O.Carm.           

Religious: Carmelite
Status: Removed from Ministry 2011
Assignments: Mount Carmel High School; Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Houston

Andrew Willemsen, CM

Religious: Vincentian (Later Incardinated Austin)
Birth Year: 1928    
Ordained: 1954    
Status: Deceased 2012
Assignments: St. Jerome, Houston; St. Mary Seminary, Houston

Visiting Priests

Luis (Eugenio) Eugene DeFrancisco  

Diocesan: Cali, Colombia  
Birth Year: 1908      
Ordained: 1931    
Status: Removed from Ministry 1960
Assignments: Methodist Hospital; St. Vincent de Paul, Houston (in residence)

Fernando Noe Guzman  

Diocesan: Morelia, Mexico
Birth Year: 1951    
Ordained: 1979
Status: Removed from Ministry 1987
Assignments: Our Lady of Fatima, Galena Park; Our Lady of Guadalupe, Navasota; St. Patrick, Navasota

Francisco Ordonez

Diocesan: Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
Birth Year: 1930
Ordained: 1995    
Status: Removed from Ministry 2003
Assignments: Immaculate Conception, Houston; St. Augustine, Houston; St. Helen, Pearland; (Assisted with Spanish Masses); Notre Dame, Houston; St. Benedict, Houston; St. John Vianney, Houston; St. Vincent de Paul, Houston

Joseph Tully

Diocesan: Rockford
Ordination: 1925    
Status: Retired 1971, deceased 1982
Assignments: St. Anne, Beaumont; St. Mary Cathedral Basilica, Galveston; St. Theresa, Houston

Priests Currently Under Investigation

John T. Keller

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston      
Birth Year: 1948    
Ordination: 1974    
Status: Removed from Ministry 2019
Assignments: Christ the Good Shepherd, Spring; Prince of Peace, Houston; St. Frances Cabrini, Houston; St. Justin Martyr, Houston

Manuel La Rosa-Lopez

Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
Birth Year: 1957    
Ordination: 1996    
Status: Removed from Ministry 2001, 2018
Assignments: Sacred Heart, Conroe; St. Francis de Sales, Houston; St. John Fisher, Richmond; Tribunal

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