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The Archdiocese of Philadelphia will pay $3.5 million to settle a civil case alleging a now-deceased priest sexually assaulted a teenage boy nearly two decades ago, and church officials knew of ...
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia noted that the Eucharistic Pilgrimage will make four stops in Bucks County on Thursday: Noon: Holy Trinity Church, 201 North Pennsylvania Avenue, Morrisville.
On May 5, 2020, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced that it now expected to pay $126 million in reparations. [86] The archdiocese also said its Independent Reconciliation and Reparations Program, which was established in 2018, has received a total of 615 claims, and had settled 208 of them for $43.8 million as of April 22, 2020. [86]
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia covers five Pennsylvania counties: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia. It is the metropolitan see of the Ecclesiastical Province of Philadelphia. The archdiocese includes the following suffragan dioceses: Allentown; Altoona-Johnstown; Erie; Greensburg; Harrisburg; Pittsburgh; Scranton
Each of these six dioceses is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. [5] [6] A similar grand jury report which inspired this investigation had been released in 2016 detailing sex abuse in another Archdiocese of Philadelphia suffragan diocese in Altoona-Johnstown. [7]
This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. [1] There are more than 200 churches in the archdiocese, divided for administrative purposes into four episcopal regions, each headed by an auxiliary bishop, and 12 deaneries.
The case of Fr. Gerard W. Chambers illustrates the fact, clearly established by evidence before the Grand Jury, that the Philadelphia Archdiocese had a longstanding policy of transferring sexually abusive priests from parish to parish in order to avoid disclosure and scandal--never mind all the children thereby endangered and abused.
On his return to Philadelphia, the archdiocese placed him on the faculty of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. During this time, he performed weekend pastoral service first at Saint Joseph Parish in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, then at Saint Alphonsus Parish in Maple Glen, Pennsylvania. In 2022, Chylinski was named rector of the seminary. [2]