Rev. John A. Dunn-Assignment

Rev. John A. Dunn

Ordained: 1960

Start	Stop	Assignment	Town	State	Position	Notes
1960	1962	Immaculate Conception	East Weymouth	MA	4/4, 3/4	One of the four was accused priest John P. Lyons, who worked with Dunn his entire stay at this parish. Parish had a school with 202-210 boys and 225-215 girls.
1962	1965?	St. Rose's	Chelsea	MA	4/5, 5/6	Also at St. Rose's during this time was Rev. Anthony Laurano, who was defrocked in 2007 due to multiple sexual abuse allegations. Parish had a grade school with 316-331 boys and 323-345 girls, and a high school with 241-251 girls. Dunn is indexed but not listed at St. Rose's in the 1965 Directory.
1965?	1967	St. Philip Neri's	Newton	MA	2/3
1967	1973	St. Mary of the Assumption	Hull	MA	3/3,2/3	All three priests at this parish during this time have been accused. Archdiocesan records revealed in 2002 that in 1993 there was a complaint to the archdiocese that Dunn, Fr. Robert Barrett, and pastor of this parish, Leo Dwyer, sexually abused a boy in the 1960s. Records indicate this was not the first allegation against these priests.
1967	1973	St. Ann's	Waveland	MA	3/3,2/3	St. Ann's was a mission of St. Mary of the Assumption, where all three priests are accused of sexually abusing children.
1967	1973	St. Mary of the Bay	Pemberton	MA	3/3,2/3	St. Mary of the Bay was a mission of St. Mary of the Assumption, where all three priests are accused of sexually abusing children.
1973		Leave of absence				Per archdiocesan records, Dunn was laicized in Oct. 1973 and married in Jan. 1974.

Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: Kenedy & Sons, 1960-1974).

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