Rev. John P. Carroll-Assignment

Rev. John P. Carroll

Summary of Case: In 1997 a man sought Carroll out at his parish in MA to ask if Carroll remembered raping him when he was an altar boy in the early 1960s at a parish in the Pittsburgh diocese. Carroll said the man was mistaken. Carroll had been removed in 1962 from a Boston area parish and sent to PA due to a "true allegation" that he had engaged in "sexual misconduct" with a woman.

Ordained: 1953

Start	Stop	Assignment	Town/Accusations	State	Position	Notes
1953 Boston archbishop was Richard James Cushing (1944-1970)	1962	St. Agnes	Arlington • Carroll was removed from this parish after a "true allegation of sexual misconduct with an adult woman". (Boston archdiocesan memo, 1997)	MA	5/5, 4/5, 3/4, 4/6, 3/6	Parish had a grade school with 643-541 boys and 582-553 girls. A high school was founded in 1960 and had 82-164 boys and 92-173 girls.
1962 Pittsburgh bishop was John Joseph Wright (1959-1969)	1963	St. Michael's	Elizabeth • A man showed up at Carroll's parish in Quincy, MA in 1997 and asked Carroll if he remembered raping him as a child in the eary 1960s at St. Michael's in Elizabethtown, PA. Carroll said the man was mistaken. (Boston archdiocesan memo, 1997) The man said he had been an altar boy, and that Carroll was in charge of the altar boys at the time. (Boston archdiocesan memo, 2003)	PA	2/2	Parish had a school with 432 students.
1962	1963	St. Isaac Jogues	Elrama	PA		St. Isaac's was a mission of St. Michael's.
1963	1967	St. Margaret's	Greentree	PA	2/3	Parish had a school with 748-759 students.
1967 Vincent Martin Leonard succeeded Wright as Pittsburgh bishop (1969-1983)	1972	St. Susanna's	Penn Hills	PA	3/3, 2/2
1972	1973	St. Alphonsus	Springdale	PA	2/2	Parish had a school with 179 students.
1973 Boston archbishop was Humberto Sousa Medeiros (1970-1983)	1976?	St. Margaret's	Lowell	MA	2/4, 2/5	Parish had a school with 550-508 students. In the 1976 Directory, Carroll is indexed as being at this parish, but is not listed there in the diocesan pages.
1976? Medeiros was succeeded by Bernard Francis Law (1984-2002)	1986	St. Mary's	Dedham	MA	2/4, 2/5
1986	1990	St. Bernard's	Newton	MA	3/4
1990	1992	?	?	?		Carroll does not appear in the 1991 Directory.
1992 Sean Patrick O'Malley, O.F.M. Cap. replaced Law as Boston archbishop (2003- )	2003	Most Blessed Sacrament	Quincy	MA	2/2
2003	2005	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Boston	MA	Spiritual Care Services	The 2005 Directory indexes but does not list Carroll at BI Deaconess.

Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: Kenedy & Sons, 1954-2005).

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