Assignment Record – Rev. Maurice T. Lebel, s.j. |
Start | Stop | Parish/Assignment | Town/Accusations | State/Country | Position | Notes |
1967 Boston archbishop was Richard James Cushing (1944-1970). |
1968 | Weston College | Weston | MA | ||
1968 Springfield bishop was Christopher Joseph Weldon (1950-1977). |
1971 | Cranwell Preparatory School | Lenox | MA | teacher | This was a Jesuit high school with 240-247 students, all male. |
1971 | 1972 | The 1972 Directory indexes Lebel as at Cranwell School in Lenox MA, but he is not listed as there in the Springfield diocesan pages. | ||||
1972 Detroit archbishop was John Francis Dearden (1958-1980). |
1973 | University of Detroit | Detroit | MI | ||
1973 Fall River bishop was Daniel Anthony Cronin (1970-1991). |
1976 | Bishop Connolly High School | Fall River | MA | rector | Bishop Connolly High had 551-459 students, all male. |
1976 | 1977 | Social and Special Apostolate | This assignment is per news accounts. | |||
1976 | 1986 | Catholic Social Services | Fall River/Attleboro • Lebel was accused in 2007 of having sexually abused and assaulted a 15 to 17-year-old in the early 1980s in Massachusetts. |
MA | counselor | This assignment is per news accounts. |
1976 | 1979 | St. Joseph's | Fall River | MA | 3/3, 2/2 In residence. |
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1979 | 1981 | St. Mary's | Mansfield | MA | 4/4 In residence. |
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1981 Boston archbishop was Humberto Sousa Mederios (1970-1983). |
1983 | Campbell House | Boston
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MA | This was a Jesuit residence. | |
1983 | 1986 | St. Mary's | Mansfield | MA | 4/4, 3/3 | |
1986 Portland bishop was Edward Cornelius O'Leary (1974-1988), followed by Joseph John Gerry, o.s.b. (1988-2004). |
1993 | St. John's | Bangor | ME | 1/4, 1/3 | St. John's had a school with 110-260 students. The 1993 Directory shows the parish to have had a CCD program with 344 students. Lebel left the Jesuits in 1991 to become a priest of the Portland ME diocese. |
1991 | 1992 | Mission Church | Kenduskeag | ME | This was a mission of St. John's in Bangor. | |
1993 | 1995 | St. Joseph's | Mars Hill | ME | 1/2, 1/1 | |
1993 | 1995 | Nativity of the BVM | Presque Isle | ME | 1/2 | |
1995 | 2000 | Sacred Heart | Auburn | ME | 1/1 | Sacred Heart had a CCD program with 249-135 students. |
2000 | 2003 | St. Catherine of Siena | Norway | ME | 1/1 | St. Catherine's had a CCD program with 107-85 students. |
2000 | 2003 | Our Lady of the Snows | Bethel | ME | This was a mission of St. Catherine of Siena in Norway. | |
2003 Gerry was succeeded as Portland bishop by Richard Joseph Malone (2004-2012). |
June 2007 | Retired/St. Martha's | Kennebunk | ME | temporary administrator | |
2003 | June 2007 | Retired/St. Mary's | Wells | ME | fill-in priest | |
2003 | June 2007 | Retired/All Saints | Ogunquit | ME | fill-in priest | |
June 2007 | Feb. 2011 | Suspended from Ministry | Lebel was suspended from ministry in June 2007 after an allegation emerged that he had sexually abused a minor in the early 1980s in Massachusetts. | |||
Feb. 2011 | 2012 | Retired | Wells | ME | Lebel was reinstated to public ministry in February 2011 after a church tribunal determined that the allegation was unproven. |
Sources: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1968-2012) • Portland Priest Investigated for Alleged Sex Abuse, By Beth Quimby, Portland Press Herald, December 8, 2007
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