Rev. Daniel J. Hoy

Summary of Case: Hoy was one of twenty-one priests placed on administrative leave by the Philadelphia archdiocese March 7, 2011 pending an investigation for credible allegations involving sexual abuse or inappropriate behavior with minors.

Ordained: 1948

Retired: 1998

   

Start Stop Parish Town/Accusations State Position Notes
1948 1951 St. Joseph's Downington PA 2/3, 2/2  

1951

Philadelphia archbishop was Dennis Joseph Dougherty (1918-1951), followed by John Francis O'Hara, C.S.C. (1951-1960)

1957 St. Christopher's Philadelphia PA 2/2 Parish had a school beginning in 1953 with 172-350 boys and 128-365 girls.
1951 1957 Philadelphia State Hospital Philadelphia PA   This was a station of St. Christophers, "attended every Sunday and holy day".

1957

O'Hara was succeeded by John Joseph Krol (1961-1988)

1964 Old St. Mary's Philadelphia PA 2/3  
1964 1969 St. Joseph's Collingdale PA 2/4, 2/3, 3/4 Parish had a school with 926-748 boys and 879-812 girls.
1969 1972 Most Blessed Sacrament Philadelphia PA 5/6, 5/5 Parish had a school with 1,197-929 boys and 1,117-831 girls.
1972 1977 Our Lady of Perpetual Help Morton PA 2/3, 3/4 Parish had a school with 822-610 students.
1977 1982 St. Peter's Honey Brook PA 1/1  

1982

Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua replaced Krol (1987-2003)

1991 St. Leo's Philadelphia PA 1/4, 1/3 Parish had a school with 680-579 students.

1991

Bevilacqua was succeeded as archbishop by Justin Francis Rigali
(2003- )

2011 Our Lady of the Assumption (Italian) Strafford PA

2/4, 2/3, 1/3, 3/3, 4/4

From 1998 on Hoy was in residence.

Parish had a preschool. It also had a religious education program with 288-104 students.

Hoy retired in 1998. He was removed from active ministry March 7, 2011 after a grand jury report found that he, among 37 other archdiocesan priests, had been accused or suspected of sexual abuse or misbehavior with children. (New York Times
March 8, 2011)
Twenty-one of the 37 were suspended pending further investigation. (Philadelphia Inquirer
March 9, 2011)

 

Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1949-2010)

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This assignment record was last updated on March 11, 2011