Diocese of San Antonio Releases List of Priests Accused of Sexual Child Abuse

The Catholic Diocese of San Antonio has released a list containing the names of priests and clergy who are credibly accused of sexual abuse of minors.

List of Priests in San Antonio Diocese Accused of Sexual Child Abuse

Note: Some priests in the San Antonio scandal continued to exercise priestly ministry with and without assignment after removal.

John M. Fiala, SOLT

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 6/2/1984 (Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity)
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Criminal conviction (I): 5/17/12
    • Criminal conviction (II): 12/2/2014
    • Deceased: 2017

Jerzy Sieczynski

  • Date of Birth: 3/18/1951
  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 2000
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Matthew in San Antonio: 2000-2003
  • Current Status:
    • Criminal conviction: 2004

Jose Aviles

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1990
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese as chaplain to the Catholic Community on Scouting, as vocation director, to
      St. Margaret Mary in San Antonio, to St. Mary Magdalen in San Antonio, and to St. Joseph
      South San Antonio.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Removed: 2003
    • Deceased: 2008

Theo Clerx (CICM)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1960
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Jude in San Antonio, to Immaculate Heart of Mary in
      Pearsall, to St. Joseph in Devine, and to St. John Berchmans in San Antonio, 1960-1992
    • He also lived in the Archdiocese in retirement without assignment from 1992-2002.
  • Number of Allegations: 7
  • Current Status:
    • Criminal conviction: 2002
    • Deceased: 2003

John Davila

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1984
    •  Assigned in the Archdiocese to Sacred Heart in Uvalde, to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Carrizo
      Springs, to St. James in San Antonio, to Our Lady of Peace in Kenedy, to St. Cecilia in San
      Antonio, to Holy Family in San Antonio, and as a rural youth retreat moderator from 1984-1993.
  • Number of Allegations: 2
  • Current Status:
    • Criminal conviction: 1994
    • Liacized: 1999

Carlos Lozano (OMI)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1993
    • Assigned by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate to their high school seminary, St.
      Anthony, in San Antonio from 1993-1994.
  • Number of Allegations: 7
  • Current Status:
    • Convicted
    • Deceased

James Orr

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1997
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to Our Lady of the Atonement in San Antonio 1997-2016
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased

Javier Ortiz Dietz

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1978
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Joseph in Yoakum, to St. Gregory in San Antonio, to Sacred
      Heart of Mary in Rocksprings and its mission churches in Leakey and Camp Wood, to Our Lady
      Queen of Heaven in Macdona, and to Sacred Heart in Von Ormy.
  • Number of Allegations: 16
  • Current Status:
    • Convicted: 1994
    • Released and Deported to Mexico: 2014
    • Laicized: 2005

Anthony Ozzimo (SJ)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1987
    • Assigned within the Archdiocese to Our Lady of Guadalupe in San Antonio.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Left Clergy: 1995

Jose Luis Contreras (CMF)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1967
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese of San Antonio to Sacred Heart in Uvalde,
      to St. Jude in San Antonio, and to Methodist Hospital as a Chaplain from 1983-1988.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Removed: 1988

Frederico Fernandez Baeza (OFM)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1981
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Leonard in San Antonio and to St. Clare in San Antonio from 1981-1987.
  • Number of Allegations: 8
  • Current Status:
    • Removed: 1987

Richard Garcia

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1974
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to Sacred Heart in San Antonio, to St. Cornelius in Karnes City, to
      St. Timothy in San Antonio, to St. Patrick in Bloomington, and to St. Jude in San Antonio from 1974-1985.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 1985

Ramon Gomez

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1984
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Matthew in Jourdanton and to Our Lady of Guadalupe in
      Carrizo Springs from 1984-1987.
  • Number of Allegations: 3
  • Current Status:
    • Removed: 1987

Benigno David Gonzalez Zumaya

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1977
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to Our Lady of Grace in San Antonio, to Our Lady of Sorrows
      in San Antonio, to Sacred Heart in Uvalde, to St. Patrick in Batesville, to Sacred Heart in Crystal
      City, to St. Gregory the Great in San Antonio, to San Fernando Cathedral, to Our Lady of
      Guadalupe in Carrizo Springs, to St. Mary Magdalene in Brackettville, to St Joseph in Nixon,
      and to St. Philip in Smiley from 1977-1998.
  • Number of Allegations: 9
  • Current Status:
    • Removed: 1997
    • Deceased: 2013

James Khoury

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1975
    • Assigned by the Maronite Eparch to St. George Maronite Church in San Antonio from 1977-1985.
    • From 1981-1983, he held the position of president of Antonian High School without compensation.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Removed: 1985
    • Deceased: 2016

Mario Martinez

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1977
    • Assigned to minister in the Archdiocese to Immaculate Conception in San Antonio and to Sacred
      Heart in Floresville. From there he left in 1977, without permission, saying that he was going to
      take care of his sick mother in Mexico. He returned in 1984 and was assigned to a convent of
      religious sisters. In 1985, he was sent for treatment for alcoholism.
  • Number of Allegations: 3
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 1994

Edward Pavlicek

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1983
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Ann in San Antonio, to St. Leo in San Antonio, to St. Benedict
      in San Antonio, to Sacred Heart in Floresville, to St. Mary in Somerset, to Good Shepherd in
      Schertz with its mission church in Marion, and to St. Thomas the Apostle in Canyon Lake from 1983-2018.
  • Number of Allegations: 1

Alfredo Prado (OMI)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1959
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to Our Lady of Good Council in San Antonio, to Sacred Heart in
      Del Rio, to St. Timothy in San Antonio, and to the Oblate high school seminary, St. Anthony, in
      San Antonio from 1959-1983. He also lived in the Archdiocese without assignment from 1990-1999.
  • Number of Allegations: 5
  • Current Status:
    • Dismissed from Oblates: 2004
    • Dismissed from clerical state: 2006

Louis White

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1975
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Ann in San Antonio, to Sacred Heart in Floresville, to St. Joseph in Yoakum, to Notre Dame in Kerrville, to San Fernando Cathedral, to St. Luke in Loire, and to St. Vincent de Paul in San Antonio, from 1975-1980, 1981-1986, and 1987-1988..
  • Number of Allegations: 10
  • Current Status:
    • Removed from clerical state: 1989

Albert Wilwerding

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1956
    •  Resided in the Archdiocese without formal assignment. He was engaged in studies during some of this time. He also assisted with Masses and for some of the time lived at St. Alphonsus in San Antonio 1982 to 1984.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 2004

Thomas Behnke (OCD)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1950
    • Lived in the Archdiocese from 1950-1978 and from 1989-1992.
    • Assigned to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Térèse in San Antonio and to Immaculate Heart of Mary in Pearsall.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 2008

David Connell

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1980
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to Antonian High School as instructor, vice-principal, and principal and to St. Thomas More in San Antonio in from 1976-1995.
  • Number of Allegations: 2
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 1995

Francisco Gomez (OFM Conv)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1976
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to San Juan de los Lagos in San Antonio, to Immaculate Conception in San Antonio, and to Holy Family in San Antonio from 1976-1980. He joined the Conventual Franciscan Order in 1980.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 1998

Michael Harrold

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1950
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Mary’s in Victoria, to Our Lady of Grace in La Coste, to St. Anthony in Palacios, to St. Cecilia in San Antonio, to St. Patrick in Bloomington, to St. Joseph High School in Victoria, to Our Lady of Victory in Victoria, and as a campus minister for Victoria Junior College and for the University of Houston Victoria Campus from 1950-1982.
    • In 1982, the Diocese of Victoria was established and he became a priest of that diocese.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 2015

Antonio Hernandez Gonzalez (OMI)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1974
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Patrick in Sabinal, to St. Joseph in Knippa, to Our Lady of Refuge in Eagle Pass, to St. Joseph in Eagle Pass, and as a chaplain to Baptist Memorial Hospital in San Antonio from 1974-1980.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Removed: 1987
    • Deceased: 2016

Lawrence Hernandez (OSST)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1978
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. James in Gonzalez and its mission churches in Gonzalez and Waelder, to San Fernando Cathedral, and to St. Paul in San Antonio from 1978-1984. In 1985, he left the Archdiocese and joined the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.
  • Number of Allegations: 2
  • Current Status:
    • Removed: 2008

Michael Kenny

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1973
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Vincent de Paul in San Antonio, to St. Luke in San Antonio, to Resurrection of the Lord in San Antonio, and to St. Margaret Mary in San Antonio from 1973-1997.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Removed: 2000

Bruce MacArthur

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1953
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. James in San Antonio and to St. Dominic in San Antonio from 1979-1984.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 2012

Alfred Harry Martin

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordination: 1966
    • Incardinated: 1977
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Agnes in Edna, to the Bexar County Jail as a chaplain, to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Selma, to Christ the King in San Antonio, to St. Vincent de Paul in San Antonio, and to Audie Murphy Veteran’s Administration Hospital as a chaplain from 1972-2002.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Voluntarily left ministry: 2002

Jon McMahon (OMI)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Assigned by the Oblates to their high school seminary, St. Anthony, in San Antonio, during the 1970’s.
  • Number of Allegations: 2
  • Current Status:
    • Removed: 2002

Patrick McNulty (SM)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1966
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Joseph High School in Victoria, to Holy Rosary in San Antonio, and to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Helotes from 1966-1982.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 1984

Thomas Aquinas McSwiggan

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1967
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Cecilia in San Antonio, to Our Lady of Grace in San Antonio, to Our Lady of Victory in Victoria, to Sts. Peter and Paul in New Braunfels, to St. Mary Magdalene in Brackettville, and to St. Patrick in San Antonio from 1967-2005.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 2014

Eusebio Pantoja Segura

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1969
    • Lived in the Archdiocese in the early 1970’s and assisted with the Spanish Cursillo.
  • Number of Allegations: 2
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 2004

Jose Luis Sandoval

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1974
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to Our Lady of Grace in San Antonio (for Our Lady of Sorrows), to St. James in San Antonio, to Sacred Heart in Uvalde (for St. Patrick in Sabinal and St. Joseph in Knippa), to St. Patrick in Sabinal (when it became a parish separate from Sacred Heart), to St. Lawrence in San Antonio, and to St. Alphonsus in San Antonio from 1974-1998.
  • Number of Allegations: 6
  • Current Status:
    • Referred for removal.

William Sprigler

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1975
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Mary in Fredericksburg and to St. Luke in San Antonio. In 1976, it was alleged that he abused two boys and was sent for psychiatric care to Via Coeli in New Mexico from 1975-1976.
  • Number of Allegations: 2
  • Current Status:
    • Removed

Joseph Angeli

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1960
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. John the Evangelist in San Antonio, to Sacred Heart in San Antonio, and to St. John the Evangelist in Hondo from 1960-1962.
  • Number of Allegations: 2
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 1993

John Flynn

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1952
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Ann in San Antonio, to St. Henry in San Antonio, to Sacred Heart in Hallettsville, to St. Mary Magdalen in San Antonio, to St. Michael in Cuero, to Saints Peter and Paul in Meyersville, to St. John the Evangelist in San Antonio, to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Selma, to St. Helena in San Antonio, and to St. Matthew in San Antonio from 1985-1997.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Resigned: 1997

Edward John Jansky

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1930
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to Saints Cyril and Methodius in Cistern, to St. Andrew in Hillje, to Saints Peter and Paul in Plum, to Holy Rosary in Hostyn, to St. Joseph in Yoakum, and to St. Joseph in Inez from 1930-1974.
  • Number of Allegations: 3
  • Current Status:
    • Retired: 1974
    • Deceased: 1979

Jose Alfonso Madrid (SJ)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1950
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to Our Lady of Guadalupe in San Antonio from 1966-1970.
  • Number of Allegations: 6
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 1982

Galeb Mokarzel (OMI)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1959
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to the Oblate high school seminary, St. Anthony, in San Antonio, to St. Joseph Retreat Center (now Oblate Renewal Center) in San Antonio, to St. Joseph in Del Rio, and to San Juan de los Lagos in San Antonio from 1959-1965, 1971-1972, 1977-1982, and 1992-1997.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Retired: 1997

Michael J. O’Sullivan

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1955
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Mary in Fredericksburg, to St. Peter in San Antonio, to St. Mary in Victoria, to Blessed Sacrament in San Antonio, and to St. Vincent de Paul in San Antonio from 1955-1965.
  • Number of Allegations: 10
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 2013

Austin N. Park (SJ)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1957
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to Our Lady of Guadalupe in San Antonio from 1957-1958 and from 1961-1963.
  • Number of Allegations: 2
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 2013

Jesus Jeremias Rojas

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1957
    • With permission from his bishop and on the recommendation of the apostolic nuncio to Peru, he intended to spend eight months working and learning in a diocese of the United States. For less than a month in late 1962, he was assigned in the Archdiocese to Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in San Antonio.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Unknown

Marion Swize

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1959
    • Assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Benedict in San Antonio, to St. Michael in San Antonio, to St. John the Evangelist in San Antonio, to St. Margaret Mary in San Antonio, to St. Rose of Lima in Schulenburg, and to St. Agnes in San Antonio from 1959-1969.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Left priesthood: 1969

Marhall Gherman

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1940
    • From 1940-1946, in 1952, and from 1954-1957, he was assigned in the Archdiocese to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in San Antonio.
  • Number of Allegations: 5
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 1959

Garbriel Hentrich

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1940
    • From 1942-1946, in 1952, from 1954-1958, from 1976-1980, and in 1987, Hentrich was assigned in the Archdiocese to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Térèse in San Antonio and to Immaculate 20 Heart of Mary in Pearsall.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 1992

Hubert Joseph Janak

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1941
    • From 1941-1985, he was assigned in the Archdiocese to Sacred Heart in Hallettsville, to St. Joseph in Yoakum, to St. Mary in Fredericksburg, to St. Joseph in Moulton, to St. John the Evangelist in Hondo, to St. Joseph in Inez, to St. Cornelius in Karnes City, to St. Patrick in San Antonio, to St. Rose of Lima in Schulenburg, and to Blessed Sacrament in Poth.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Retired: 1985
    • Deceased: 1994

John Francis Keane

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1957
    • From 1957-1961, he was assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Margaret Mary in San Antonio, to St. Mary in Victoria, to Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ganado, to St. Rose of Lima in Schulenburg, to Sacred Heart in Hallettsville, and to St. Ann in San Antonio.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Dismissed: 1961
    • Deceased: 2001

William Lievens (CICM)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1954
    • From 1957-1972, he was assigned in the Archdiocese to Immaculate Concepcion in San Antonio, to San Juan Capistrano in San Antonio, to St. Joseph in Devine (for Saint Andrew in Lytle and St John Bosco in Natalia), and to St. John Berchmans in San Antonio.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 1972

Emmet Malone (OFM)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1947
    • From 1950-1952, and in 1957, he was assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Joseph South San. From 1990-1991, he lived in residence at the same parish.
  • Number of Allegations: 2
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 1994

Jose Leoca dio Cayetan de los Dolores Romero

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1926
    • From 1926-1978, he was assigned in the Archdiocese to St. Phillip in El Campo, to St. Helena in Pierce, to St. John Seminary in San Antonio, to St. John the Evangelist in Hondo, to St. Peter Prince of the Apostles in San Antonio (for St. Anthony de Padua), to Notre Dame in Kerrville, to St. Andrew in Pleasanton, and to the Teresian Novitiate.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 1978

Albert Storme (CICM)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1940
    • From 1955-1964, and from 1976-1985, he was assigned in the Archdiocese to St John the Evangelist in San Antonio, to San Juan Capistrano in San Antonio, to Immaculate Conception in San Antonio, to St. Jude in San Antonio, to St. Martin de Porres in San Antonio, to St. Gabriel in San Antonio, to St. Joseph in Devine with its mission church in Bigfoot, to St. Joseph in Dilley, and to Immaculate Heart of Mary in Pearsall.
  • Number of Allegations: 2
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 1990

Paul Van Houtteghem (CICM)

  • Ordination & Prior Status:
    • Ordained: 1948
    • From 1949-1988, he was assigned in the Archdiocese of San Antonio to St. John the Evangelist in San Antonio, to St. Agnes in San Antonio, to St. Philip Benizi in Poteet, to St. Joseph in Devine for St. Andrew in Lytle and St. John Bosco in Natalia, to St. Andrew in Lytle (when it became a parish separate from St. Joseph in Devine), to Our Lady of Sorrows, to Baptist Hospital as a chaplain, to Santa Rosa Hospital as a chaplain, and to St. Joseph in Nixon.
  • Number of Allegations: 1
  • Current Status:
    • Deceased: 2001

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