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Rev. Raymond A. Boulanger, S.M.

Summary of Case: Boulanger was accused in a 2002 lawsuit of having engaged in "sexual misconduct" toward girls at a parish in the late 1960s.

Ordained: 1951

Start Stop Assignment Town/Accusations State Position Notes

1951

Boston archbishop was Richard James Cushing (1944-1970)

1952 Marist College and Seminary Bedford MA 7/9  

1952

Portland bishop was Joseph Edward McCarthy (1932-1955), followed by Daniel Joseph Feeney (1955-1969)

1958 St. Mary's Van Buren ME

8/8,7/7,7/9,5/7,6/7

Residence of Marist priests who taught in Van Buren's Boys' High School (public). Boulanger is indexed but not listed as at St. Mary's in the Portland diocesan pages of the 1958 Directory.
1952 1958 Van Buren Boys' High School Van Buren ME    

1958

Detroit archbishop was John Francis Deardon (1958-1980)

1976 Notre Dame High School for Boys Harper Woods MI

4/18,7/22,6/22,7/21,6/21,4/20,
4/17,2/14,2/15

School had 843-1065 students. The 1967-1971 Official Catholic Directories refer to Boulanger as "Very Reverend" and indicate he was Vice Rector. He is indexed in the 1972-1976 Directories as being at Notre Dame High School, but is not listed there in the diocesan pages.
1971 1975 Queen of Peace Harper Woods MI   This assignment is per a Notre Dame Academy 2010 death notice.

1976

Boston archbishop was Humberto Sousa Medeiros (1970-1983)

1979 Our Lady of Mt. Carmel

Methuen

• Boulanger was named publicly in 2002 as having been accused of "sexual misconduct" toward girls at this parish in the late 1960s. (Boston Globe
December 17, 2002)

MA 1/2,1/3 Parish had a school with 206-208 students.

1979

Portland bishop was Edward Cornelius O'Leary (1974-1988), succeeded by Joseph John Gerry (1988-2004)

1992 St. John the Baptist Brunswick ME 4/5,3/5,2/4,2/3,2/6,2/5 Parish had a school with 385-224 students.

1979

 

1992 St. Andrew's Pejepscot ME   St. Andrew's was a mission for St. John the Baptist in Brunswick ME
1980 1985 Diocesan Human Relations Services District #3 Advisory Board Portland ME    
    Diocesan Executive Board Portland ME    
    Diocesan Personnel Committee Portland ME    
    Regional Hospital Portland ME Chaplain  

1992

Medeiros was replaced as Boston archbishop by Bernard Francis Law (1984-2002)

1994 St. Joseph's (French) Haverhill MA 5/5 In residence. Parish had a school with 279 students.
1994 2005 The Marist House Framingham MA 9/9,11/11,9/10/8/8,6/8,
6/13,6/12,7/13,8/15

The Marist House was a retreat center.

  2010 St. Patrick Manor Framingham MA   Boulanger died Feb. 12, 2010

Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: Kenedy & Sons, 1952-2005).

Priests in a Parish: We use the following convention to show a priest's place among the clergy of a parish: 1/2 means that he is the first priest listed in the Official Catholic Directory (usually the pastor) and that there is a total of two priests at the parish. The shorthand 3/4 means that the priest is listed third on a four-priest roster. See our sample page from the Directory.

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