People who were abused by priests in California are able to get help through the California Assembly which recently passed a bill extending the timeframe that survivors can file civil claims.
The bill was passed in 2019 and opened up a three-year window for survivors of Catholic priest abuse to file civil lawsuits against the priests and the specific Catholic Diocese that employed them.
Childhood sexual abuse causes life-long trauma for the survivors. But because the abuse occurred when the survivors were young, in many instances the statute of limitations has run, preventing the filing of civil lawsuits.
But this new bill gives the survivors another chance to bring justice to the abusers. For the priest abusers and their enablers in the Catholic Church hierarchy, their time is up.
Boucher LLP has been helping clergy abuse survivors bring their abusers to justice in California and across the nation. We are providing this list of priests accused of abuse in California, along with the specific dioceses in which those priests worked.
Our clergy sexual abuse legal teams will use our knowledge, skills, and resources to track down and hold these abusers responsible for their actions. Survivors can use this list of priests accused of abuse by dioceses in California to find a specific abuser.
Clergy Members and Catholic Priests Accused of Abuse in California
There are 349 accused clergy members from The Archdiocese of Los Angeles:
Abaya, Ruben L.
Abercrombie, Leonard
Aguilar-Rivera, Nicolas
Ahumada, Arturo Federico
Albalaa, Pierre
Alonso, Jose
Altamirano Torres, Sebastian
Alzugaray, Joseph
Anderson, David E.
Anderson, Roger
Arias, Andres
Atherton, Gregory
Arzube, Juan
Babilonia, Delfin
Baker, Michael
Balak, Fredrick
Balbin, Victor
Barco, Roberto
Barmasse, Kevin P.
Bautista, Gaspar
Berbena, Christopher
Berumen, Matthias A.
Bismonte, Honesto
Boley, Robert
Bond, Robert
Bouska, Jerome
Boyer, Leland
Brennan, John Lawrence
Brown, Lawrence
Buckley, Michael D.
Buckman, Franklin
Cabaong, Honorato
Cabot, Samuel
Caffoe, Lynn
Cairns, James
Campbell, Stuart B.
Cano, Juan
Carey, Cleve W.
Carriere, David
Carroll, Michael
Carvajal Hernandez, Raul
Casey, Edward
Casey, John Joseph
Casey, Michael Joseph
Castellanos-Morfin, Gildardo
Cavalli, Vincent
Cavanagh, Brian
Castro, Willebaldo
Chandler, David
Chong, Damien
Cimmarrusti, Mario Walter
Coffield, John
Colosimo, Eugene
Connolly, Bernard
Cook, Ozias Bailey
Corcoles, Candido
Corral, Andres S.
Cosgrove, John
Cotter, Patrick John
Coughlin, Richard T.
Cousineau, David
Cremins, Daniel J.
Cronin, Sean
Cruces, Angel
Cuevas, Jose Luis
Cunningham, Chrisopher
Daley, Wallace
Dawson, John H.
De Otero, Roberto
Deady, John P.
Deehr, Anselm
DeJonghe, Harold
DeLisle, Harold F.
Devaney, James
Di Peri, Joseph B.
Diamond, William L.
Diesta, Arwyn
Doan, Michael Son Trong
Doherty, John B.
Doherty, Roger
Dolan, James
Dominguez, Jesus Jesse
Dove, Thomas
Dowd, Francis
DuFour, Donald J.
Duggan, Albert J.
Dunne, Joseph
Duplessis, Donald
Elanjimannil, Sebastian
Encinas, Andrew Gabriel
English, Thomas Patrick
Epperson, Mark
Eslava, Joseph
Falvey, Mark
Farabaugh, Clint
Farmer, Donald G.
Farrell, Terrence
Farris, John V.
Fatooh, Charles
Faue, Matthias
Feeney, John J.C.
Feeney, John Patrick
Fernando, Arthur N.
Fernando, Walter
Fessard, Gerald B.
Finn, William
Fitzpatrick, James J.
Fitzpatrick, Thomas Q.
Flannery, Patrick
Flynn, Vincent Stephen
Foley, George
Ford, James
Gaioni, Dominic
Gallagher, George Michael
Gameros, Miguel
Garay, Jesus Atilio
Garcia, Cristobal
Garcia, Peter
Garcia, Ramon
Garcia, Richard Francis
Garcia, Sergio
Ginty, Denis
Granadino, David F.
Grasha, Donald Francis
Grill, Philip
Grimes, James
Gunst, George
Guzman, Vicente
Hackett, John Joseph
Hagenbach, Clinton V.
Hanley, Bernard Brian
Haran, Michael Joseph
Hardy, Paschal
Harman, Charles
Harris, Michael A.
Hartman, Richard
Havel, Thomas E.
Hawkes, Benjamin
Henry, Richard
Hernandez, Alfred
Hernandez, Stephen
Higson, John
Hill, Patrick Joseph
Hollenbach, Frank A.
Hollinger, William
Horvath, Bertrand
Hunt, Michael A.
Hurley, Daniel
Hurley, John J.
Hurley, Richard
Ilagan, Jose Medrano
Jablonowski, Anthony
James, Joseph
James, Melvin
Jaramillo, Luis
Jayawardene, Tilak A.
Jimenez-Pelayo, Emmanuel
Johnson, Dave
Juarez, Anthony
Juarez, Robert Jesus
Kain, Steven (Stephen)
Kareta, Gregory J.
Kavanaugh, Phillip M.
Kearney, Christopher W.
Keeney, John
Kelly, Matthew H.
Kelly, Patrick
Kenny, John A.
Killeen, John
King, Thomas F.
Klikunas, Bruce J.
Knoernschild, John
Koerner, Robert
Kohlbeck, Frank
Kohnke, John
Krumm, Gus
Lacar, Sylvio
Lalor, Michael
Lane, Timothy, C.J.
LaPierre, David
Lawless, Fergus
Leon, Modesto
Lindner, Jerold William
Llanos, Theodore
Loofborough, Charles
Loomis, Richard A.
Lopez, Fernando L.
Lopez, Joseph
Lorenzoni, Larry
Lovell, Lawrence (Larry)
Lyons, Denis
MacSweeney, Eugene
Maio, Eugene
Manning, Robert
Marshall, Thomas
Martin, James Aloysius
Martinez, Ernest
Martinez, Ruben
Mateo, Leonard
Mateos, Francisco
Mayer, Charles Patrick
McAsey, Joseph
McCabe, Vincent
McCarthy, Kevin
McClean, William A.
McElhatton, Thomas H.
McGloin, James
McGrath, Philip Joseph
McHugh, Patrick Joseph
McKeon, Martin
McNamara, Patrick
Mejia, Gonzalez Jose
Mendez, Jose
Meyer, Louis L.
Messenger, William P.
Miani, Titian Jim
Miller, George M.
Mitchell, John D.
Mohan, Thomas J.
Molthen, Vincent
Monte, Alfred
Morales, Raymond D.
Moody, Michael Andre
Moreno, Kolbe
Murguia, Ralph
Murphy, Francis J.
Murphy, Joseph L.
Murray, Daniel J.
Newell, Jeffrey David
Nocita, Michael
Nwankwo, Cyril Ndubuizu
O’Brien, Kenneth
O’Byrne, John
O’Carroll, Charles
Ochoa, Javier
O’Connor, Donal
O’Dwyer, Patrick
O’Leary, Mark G.
O’Loghlen, Martin P.
Orellana, Samuel
O’Rourke, Thomas
Paone Ernest
Pacheco, Albert Gary
Pecharich ,Michael
Peck, Daniel P.
Peguero, Roberto H.
Pena, Amado
Pereira, Anthony
Perez, Henry
Perez Carillo, Antonio
Perez, Francisco Javier
Person, James
Pick, Louis V.
Pina, Joseph D.
Pleimann, Bernard
Plesetz, Gerald
Poon, Stanislaus
Porter, Thomas A.
Power, Vincent
Purcell, Patrick
Puthenkandam, Joseph J.
Quinlan, Celestine
Ramos, Eleutario
Regan, Joseph
Reilly, Terrence
Reina, Nicholas J.
Riebe, Loren
Robinson, James
Rodie, Ernest
Rodriguez, Carlos Rene
Rodriguez Macal, Saul
Roemer, Donald Patrick
Roper, William
Rosas Flores, Fidel
Rowe, Dorian
Rozo Rincon, Efrain
Rucker, George Neville
Ruhl, John E.
Ryan, Joseph Francis
Ryan, Thomas
Salazar, Alexander
Salazar, Armando
Salazar, John Anthony
Salinas, Gabriel
Sanchez, Jose
Sanchez, Jose L.
Sanchez, Juan
Sanchez, Manuel
Sandstrom, Lawrence
Santillan, John
Satterthwaite, Richard W.
Savarianandam, Arulappan
Savino, Dominic
Schaller, Emmett Gilroy
Scheier, Maurice
Schimmaly, Edward
Scott, George
Selmo, Louis
Sharkey, Joe
Sharpe, Joseph Francis
Sheahan, John A.
Shelton, Charles
Shepherd, John R.
Silva, Fidencio Fores
Sintef, Michael Charles
Spader, Robert William
Speciale, Stephen Emmet
Sprouffske, Matthew
Stack, Jerome
Stadtfeld, Joseph
Stallkamp, Louis G.
Stiechen, Raymond
Su, Stanislaus S.
Sullivan, Thomas
Sutphin, Carl M.
Sweeney, Francis M.
Tacderas, Joseph
Tamayo, Santiago L.
Teluma, Lukas Bao
Tepe, Raymond (Jose)
Terra, Michael
Thorne, Vance
Tresler, Carl Duane
Tubbs, Leo
Tugade, Valentine Q.
Turba, Jerome
Ugarte, Jose I.
Van Handel, Robert
Van Liefde, Christian
Van Ter Toolen, Vincent
Verhart, John
Vetter, Henry Xavier
Villa Gomez, Gilmero Nemoria
Villaroya, Ernesto Corral
Villoria, Luis
Vita, William
Vorisek, Rudolph
Wadeson, John Howard
Walsh, James Joseph
Warren, A. Thomas
Weber, Francis J.
Weitz, Wilfrid
Wempe, Michael E.
Wert, William
Wertz, Gerald
Wishard, John W.
Wolfe, Phillip
Wood, William J.
Ziemann, G. Patrick
There are 35 accused clergy members from The Archdiocese Of San Francisco:
Armstrong, Peter Gomez
Aylward, James W.
Baquedano-Pech, Theodore
Billante, Salvatore
Bravo, Roberto
Carter, Daniel E.
Cloutier, Edmond G.
Cunha, Arthur Manuel
Dabbene, Bernard
Danielson, Harold
Durkin, Charles
Ellis, Hal
Heaney, John P.
Ingels, Gregory G.
Keegan, Austin Peter
Keohane, Daniel T.
Leach, Jerome
Lewis, Epiphanius
McCrillis, Philip E.
Moriarty, John
Murnig, Guy Anthony
Myers, William S.
O’Connor, John J.
O’Shea, Patrick J.
Pacheco, Dan (Danilo)
Presenti, Richard P.
Riley, Miles O’Brien
Schipper, Carl Anthony
Stanislaus, Wellington Joseph “Brother Stan”
Superiaso, Jose
Trainor, Henry J.
Tubbs, Leo Donald
Van Handel, Robert M.
Walsh, Milton T.
Yost, Peter
There are 14 accused clergy members from The Diocese Of Fresno:
Bradley, John
Brown (Bp), Tod D.
Ceniza, Hermy Dave O.
Collins (in Fresno), James
Diaz, Raul
Esquivel, John
Flores, Miguel
Gabriel, Benjamin
Gamel, Robert
Garcia, Louis Aloysius
Harrison, Craig
Herdegen, Anthony G.
O’Connell, Vincent A.
Swearingen, Eric
There are 30 accused clergy members from The Diocese of Monterey:
Abinate, Phillip
Battagliola, Alberto (Orlando)
Campbell, Stuart Bede
Chavira, Marcos Capistran
Condon, Thomas
Cortes, Antonio
Crews, Edward
Daly, Patrick
Dwyer, Vincent
Esquivel, Juan Carlos
Faria, Carl
Fitz-Henry, Edward
Garcia, Luis
Haskins, Edward T.
Jimenez, Manuel
Kareta, Gregory
McCarthy, Scott
McDonald, Michael
Mengon, Albert (Alberto)
Meyer, Gilbert
Migliazzo, Felix
Moore, Charles L.
Neary, Thomas
O’Connor, Colman
Pacheco, Joseph
Pierson, John
Sheehan, Joseph
Valdez, Paul R.
Velez, John
Wisecaver, James
There are 44 accused clergy members from The Diocese of Oakland:
Acebo, Jeffrey N.
Binh-Minh, Thomas Duong
Breen, Vincent Ignatius
Broderson, Donald Eugene
Cabral, Kenneth J.
Castillo, Alexander Q.
Clark, James A.
Colloty, Phillip
Cooper, Hilary
Coutts, Virendra
Crespin, George E.
Custodio, Sidney J.
Donovan, Pearse P.
Duffy, Dennis
Eagleson, Donald W.
Ferreira, Joseph A.
Finnegan, Patrick
Francis, George J.
Freitas, Robert E.
Furman, Adrian
Green, William S.
Gutierrez-Cervantes, Joseph (Jesse)
Kiesle, Stephen M.
LaGasse, Ronald J.
Lanuevo, Tarcisio D.
Leehan, Cornelius P.
Luiz, Gary M.
McKinnon, Bede
McLeod, Daniel
Mendoza Vela, Hector David
Moreno, Joaquin
O’Brien, Lawrence
Odom-Green, William
Ponciroli, Robert F.
Prindeville, James E.
Ribeiro, Arthur A. (Arturo)
Slane, Anthony
Tollner, Gary B.
Varela, Ramon
Vas, John
Verngren, Francis
Whelan, Stephen (Steve)
Wilcox, Gordon
Wong, Terrence
There are 26 accused clergy members from The Diocese of Orange:
Andersen, Andrew Christian
Aranda, Sofronio A. (Pon)
Atherton, Gregory
Baird, Lawrence J.
Buckman, Franklin
Casimano (Casamino), Santino
Coffield, John V.
Delahunty, Richard
Falvey, Sinon F.
Foley, Robert
Harris, Michael A.
Horvath, Bertrand W.
Jimenez, Edgardo Arrunataegui
Knoernschild, John
Lenihan, John Peter
Lord, John “Jack” W.
Manville, Alexander
Mohan, Thomas Joseph
Nguyen, Dominic
Pillon, Gordon John
Ramaekers, Timothy
Ramirez, Luis Eduardo
Ruhl, John (Jon) E.
Salazar, Cesar
Sheahan, John A.
Tanilong, Gerardo Jarencio
There are 48 accused clergy members from The Diocese of Sacramento:
Allender, Thomas G.
Arroyo, Alejandro
Beltran Rico, Gerardo
Blanco, Mario
Boyle, Edward
Brady, Vincent
Casey, James
Casper, Robert
Coffey, Andrew
Conway, Malachy
Coria Gonzales, Hector
Cortes, Pablo
Crowley, John
Delgado, Rodolfo
Dermody, Thomas
Dowling, John
Falvey, Arthur A.
Feeser, William
Figueroa, Oscar
Foley, J. Patrick
Garcia, Francisco Javier
Hannan, John
Henson, Jerome M.
Hernandez Cota, David
Hernandez-Tovar, Francisco
Hold, William B.
Lynch, Michael
Magallanes, Jesus
Marsicek, Robert (Bob)
Mennis, James
Mistretta, Vito
Monaghan, James Thomas
Moreno, Jorge
O’Connor, Cornelius F.
Ojeda, Uriel
Perez, Z. Enrique
Petrich, Vernon
Pinal Costellanos, Jose Antonio
Porras, Mario Blanco
Prouix, Michael
Storan, William
Twomey, Simon
Urbina, Jose Luis
Wallace, Murrough
Walsh, Michael
Walsh (California), Michael
Watts, John “Casper”
There are 31 accused clergy members from The Diocese of San Bernardino:
Ayala, Saul
Ball, Edward Lawrence
Barco, Roberto
Bell, Joseph
Benson, Gustavo
Bucaro, Michael
Castillo, Alejandro Jose /Alex
Covas, Peter
da Silva, Owen
De Dominicis, Daniel
Dominguez, Jesus
Donat, Robert J.
Dunne, Kevin
Etienne, Clifton Raymond
Fertal, Joseph (Joe)
Garduno, Anthony Martinez
Gil, Rudi
Gomez Macouzet, Maximiliano
Hayes, J. Ernest/Ernest J.
Jablonski, Joseph
Jost, Dennis Raymond
Keppel, Timothy F.
Kurilec, Robert
Luque, Peter H.
McCormick, Peter
Melzer, Howard
Nguyen, Paul
Nunez, Joseph R.
Perreault, Louis G.
Trujillo, Esteban
Waltos, Bernard
There are 54 accused clergy members from The Diocese of San Diego:
Beatty, John
Booth, James T.
Bridgette, Sister
Buchanan, Robert
Carrillo, Arthur
Chavarin, Jose
D’Amora, Edito
Daly, John Joseph
Damasco, Nelson
De Francisco, Luis Eugene
Doxie, Donald F.
Eagen, I. Brent
Flynn, Herman Francis
French, Michael
Galindo, Rudolph
Ganahl, James A.
Gill, Paul
Higgins, Michael
Holtey, Gary Michael
Houck, Richard L.
Hughes, Patrick J.
Keith, John Charles
Koerner, Robert S.
Kowalczyk, Adalbert (Albert) J.
Kraft, William Armstrong
Kurlandski, Lawrence
Lally, George
Langille, Justin
Marron, Michael Victor
Marron, Peter Joseph
McGinn, Malachy M.
McNamara, Patrick Carl
Medaer, Mark/Marc A.
Mejia, Ricardo
Moloney, Thomas
Montagna, Paolino
Nikliborc, Robert Daniel.
O’Keeffe, Patrick J.
Omemaga, Emmanuel O.
Polizzi, Daniel
Reveles, Nicholas
Robier, Franz
Rodrigue, Edward Anthony
Roll, David
Rossell, Joseph (Jose)
Savord, William R.
Sheehy, Edward Augustine
Sheridan, Gregory Sierra
Spain, William D.
Thomas, (unknown)
Thompson, Matthew J.
Uboldi, Victor
Valverde, William
Vinyard, Barry
There are 19 accused clergy members from The Diocese of San Jose:
Bettencourt, Thomas
Burke, Edward Thomas
Connor, Charles Leonard
Dondero, Joseph
Farrington, William C.
Flickinger, Don D.
Gray, Robert A.
Harrison, Arthur
Largente, Laurent
Larkin, Alexander C.
Mariano, Angel Crisostomo
Moniz, John Rodrigues
Moss, George
Noia, Leonel C.
Pritchard, Joseph T.
Senevirante, Noel
Sunseri, Phil
Toro, Hernan
Van der Putten, Benedict
There are 21 accused clergy members from The Diocese of Santa Rosa:
Bolger, Anthony
Brenkle, John J.
Crews, John S.
Gleeson, Patrick
Hannon, Patrick A.
Kelly, Michael Emmet
Kimball, Donald Wren
McCabe, Patrick Joseph
Meenan, John A.
Neville, Francis E.
O’Neill, Vincent
Ochoa, Francisco Xavier
Oswald, Ted
Pallathuparambil, Xavier
Rogers, John K.
Sheehy, Wilfred L.
Sobalvarro, Alfredo
Timmons, Gary
Walsh, James
Ward, Bernard (Bernie)
Wiecek, Ron
There are 13 accused clergy members from The Diocese of Stockton:
Arakal, Francis
Camacho, Antonio
Clavell, Didacus (Didachus)
Fahy, Murty M.
Guarin-Sosa, Julio Cesar
Kelly, Michael E.
Mascardo, Editho
Munoz, Antonio
O’Grady, Oliver Francis
Pelaez, Oscar (Oskar)
Perez Torrez, Eduardo
Suarez, Leo
Villalobos, Ferdinand (Fernando)
A list of 31 accused clergy members in California, compiled by a former employee of the SBC Executive Committee
Allen, Demetrius
Anderson, Mark
Bonine, John Earl (Jeb)
Cowan, Robert Lindsay
Daniels, Tommy Gene
Domelle, Donald
Garcia, Andres
Gray, Brian Clay
Hambright, Gary Willard
Hammonds, Carlton F.
Han, Timothy
Huckaby, Melissa
Hughey, Les
Jenkins, Jonathan Lamont
Long, Roy
Maldonado, Fernando
Malgren, William Alan
Martin, Kerry Clyde
Meulenberg, Ruven
Monteiro, Malo “Victor”
Nelms, Joe David
Nguyen, Minh Van
Parnell, Wesley Craig
Savage, John Calvin
Spencer, Joseph Jermaine
Tebbutt, Brad
Thomas, Charles
Torres, Joseph Gary
Walker, Jon L.
Williams, Scott Martin
Yoon, Samuel
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