Rev. Joseph Fugolo, c.s.
Summary of Case: Fugolo was accused by a man in 1997 of having taken nude photographs in the late 1960s of him when he was a child. This same accuser reported that he was sexually abused during this same time period by Rev. John Bocciarelli, who was pastor of the church in which Fugolo served.
Ordained: 1967
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| Start | Stop | Assignment | Town/Accusations | State | Position | Notes |
1967 Boston archbishop was Richard James Cushing (1944-1970), followed by Humberto Sousa Medeiros (1970-1983) |
1972 | St. Anthony's (Italian) | Somerville • A man reported to the Boston archdiocese that he had been sexually abused when he was nine or ten years old, between 1967-1969, by Fugolo and another priest at St. Anthony's. (1997 archdiocesan memo) |
MA | 2/2 | Parish had a school with 179-145 boys and 187-144 girls. |
| 1972 | 1976 | Sacred Heart (Italian) | Boston | MA | ||
1976 |
1979 | Montreal University | Montreal | Quebec, Canada | student | Fugolo earned a degree in Pastoral Theology. (zoominfo.com March 10, 2010) |
| 1979 | 1986 | Our Lady of Pompeii | Montreal | Quebec, Canada |
Pastor | |
| 1986 | 1993 | General House | Rome | Italy | General Counselor; Minister of Finance for the Scalabrinian order. | |
1993 New York archbishop was John Joseph O'Connor (1984-2000) |
1998 | New York (Greenwich Village) | NY | Fugolo was appointed Provincial Superior for the Eastern US, for Canada, the Caribbean, Venezuela, and Columbia in 1993. (Staten Island Advance (New York) October 20, 2007) |
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1998 Edward Michael Egan replaced O'Connor as archbishop (2000-2009) |
2008 | New York Trust for the Center for Migration Studies | Staten Island | NY | Director | |
| 1999 | 2009 | American Committee on Italian Immigration, Inc. | New York | NY | ||
| 1999 | 2008 | St. Charles House of Studies | Jamaica | NY | ||
| 1999 | 2002 | Scalabrini Pastoral Center | NY | |||
| 1999 | 2008 | Friends of Radio Maria, Inc. | Ridgewood | NY | http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:DQcqmQu0olQJ:www.scalabrinimontreal.org/en/contact.php+Rev.+Joseph+Fugolo,+c.s.+Montreal&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari | |
| 2001 | 2009 | Scalabrinian Missionaries | Staten Island | NY | In 2005 Fugolo was again elected Provincial Superior. He stepped down in 2009. (philipinopastoralministry.org) | |
2009 Jean-Claude Turcotte is Montreal archbishop (1990- ) |
2010 | Scalabrini Centre | Montreal | Canada | Administrator | Per scalabrinimontreal.org, March 2010. This is a center for refugees and immigrants. |
Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1968-2009)
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This assignment record was last updated on March 11, 2010