Accused of abuse of several boys in 1950s-1960s. In 1999, jury awarded one man $1.2M after several other victims testified but verdict later reversed by Appeals Court which ruled statute of limitations had expired. Laicization announced 11/03/06,
Start |
Stop |
Assignment |
Town/Accusations |
State |
Position |
Notes |
1954
St. Louis archbishop was Elmer Joseph Ritter (1946-1967) |
1956 |
St. Patrick's |
Rolla
|
MO |
2/2
Gummersbach worked under Msgr. Gerold J. Kaiser.
|
Parish had a school with 142-213 students. |
1956 |
1959 |
Immaculate Conception |
Union |
MO |
2/2
Pastor was Rev. Raymond C. Schuermann. |
Parish had a school with 196-223 students. |
1959 |
1963 |
St. Gregory's |
St. Ann
• Two men testified at a1999 civil trial that Gummersbach sexually abused them at St. Gregory's when they were children. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch [Missouri]
February 24, 1999) |
MO |
2/3
Pastor 1959-1961 was Rev. Michael O'Keeffe, and third priest was Rev. Joseph H. Blattner. Pastor 1961-1963 was Rev. Joseph J. Richter. Third priest 1962-1963 was Gerald T. Nienhaus, and 1963-1964 third priest was David A. Walter. |
St. Gregory's had a school with 1,092-960 students.
|
1963
John Joseph Carberry was Archbishop (1968-1979) |
1968 |
Immaculate Conception Blessed Virgin Mary |
St. Louis
• Accused in the 1990s of sexually abusing boys at this parish in the 1960s. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch [Missouri]
February 23, 1999). |
MO |
3/4,2/3
Pastor was Msgr. James P. Johnston. Second priest 1963-1965 was John J. Leibrecht, Ph.D. Last priest 1963-1966 was David A. Walter. From 1966-1968 Gummersbach was second priest, third was Rev. Paul J. Butler. |
Parish haad a school with 359-276 students. |
1968 |
1972 |
Church of the Annunziata |
Ladue
• Accused in 1994 of abusing a 15 year old boy at this parish beginning in 1968. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch [Missouri]
June 10, 1994) |
MO |
2/2
Gummersbach worked under Msgr. James R. Hartnett. |
Parish had a school with 165-202 students. |
1972 |
1974 |
St. Joseph Hospital |
Kirkwood |
MO |
Chaplain |
Indexed as at St. Joseph's in Kirkwood in Directory, but not listed there. |
1972 |
1979 |
St. Joseph Hospital |
St. Charles |
MO |
Chaplain |
|
1979
Archbishop was John Lawrence May (1980-1992) |
1981 |
Immaculate Conception |
Flat River
|
MO |
1/1 |
|
1979 |
1981 |
St. John's |
Bismarck |
MO |
|
St. John's was a mission of Immaculate Conception. |
1981 |
1987 |
St. Rose of Lima |
St. Louis |
MO |
3/3,2/2
In 1981-1982 Gummersbach was third priest after Revs. James Marshall and James M. Moll. Moll was pastor 1982-1987 with Gummersbach as assistant. |
|
1981 |
1982 |
St. Louis Children's Hospital |
St. Louis |
MO |
|
This assignment is per news report. (Associated Press, carried in My Fox
November 3, 2006) |
1982 |
1987 |
Deaconess Hospital |
St. Louis |
MO |
Chaplain |
|
1987 |
1989 |
? |
? |
? |
|
Gummersbach is not indexed in the 1988 or 1989 Directories, and is not listed at his previous assignments. |
1989
Replacing Carberry as Archbishop was Justin Francis Rigali (1994-2003) |
1994 |
St. Agnes |
St. Louis |
MO |
2/2
In residence. Pastor was Rev. George F. Mayer. |
|
1993 |
1994 |
Little Flower, St. Teresa of the Infant Jesus |
Richmond Heights |
MO |
3/3
Revs. James J. Benz; Philip G. Krahman; James L. Gummersbach. |
Parish had a school with 216 students. |
1993 |
1994 |
Deaconess Hospital |
St. Louis
• Placed on leave in April 1994 due to allegations of having sexually abused a boy in the
late 1960's. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch [Missouri]
June 10, 1994)
|
MO |
Chaplain |
Does not appear in Directories after 1994.
Gummersbach was laicized in 2006. (St. Louis Review
November 3, 2006) |