Rev. Robert A. Marcantonio-Assignment

Rev. Robert A. Marcantonio

Ordained: 6-24-67

Start	Stop	Assignment	Town/Accusations	State	Position	Notes
1967			Louvain	Belgium		Ordained for the Providence diocese from the Catholic University of Louvain.
1967	1968	St. Mary's (Italian)	Cranston • Accused of molesting boys while at this parish (Providence Journal-Bulletin, July 3, 1994).	RI	3/3 Marcantonio listed third after Revs. Oliver J. Bernasconi and Alfred T. Ferrara.	St. Mary's had a school with 107 boys and 107 girls.
1968	1969	Sacred Heart	West Warwick	RI	2/2 Worked under Rt. Rev. Msgr. Anthony A. DeAngelis. Marcantonio's duties included moderating parish CYO (per 1998 legal complaint).	Parish had a school with 170 boys and 180 girls. DeAngelis accused of sexual abuse of a young girl (Wellesley Townsman, July 4, 2002)
1969 Bishop of the Providence diocese was Russell J. McVinney (1948-1971)	1970	St. Mary's (Italian)	Cranston • Chancellor Daniel P. Reilly is alleged to have known in 1970 that Marcantonio had previously molested more than two dozen boys (Associated Press, March 17, 2002). • Reportedly molested four young boys while at St. Mary's, telling them it was his responsibility to teach them about sex (per 1998 legal complaint).	RI	3/3 Marcantonio worked under Revs. Oliver J. Bernaschoni and Louis Antonelli.	Parish school had 90 boys and 109 girls.
1969	1970	Our Lady of Providence Seminary High School	Providence	RI	Teacher
1970 Archbishop of Dubuque was James J. Byrne (1962-1983)	1975	St. Thomas Aquinas	Ames • Marcantonio was sent to Iowa to attend graduate school and to receive treatment from a psychiatrist who was also a priest, and who knew Marcantonio when he was a seminarian at Louvain, Belgium (per 1998 legal complaint).	IA	Per Official Catholic Directories, Pastor was Rev. James A. Supple. Also at St. Thomas during these years were Very Rev. Msgr. Daniel J. Tarrant and Rev. David H. Manders. Rev. Melvin D. Hemann was there 1970-1972, replaced by Rev. Richard L. Schaefer 1972-1975.	Marcantonio indexed in Directories only as "on duty outside the diocese", and not listed at St. Thomas Auqinas. The Dubuque archdiocese released information in 2006 that he had been at this parish. Parish had a catechetical school with 407-360 students.
1970	1975	St. Cecila's	Ames • Marcantonio is said to have sexually abused at least two boys in Ames (Des Moines Register, September 18, 2006)	IA	Per Official Catholic Directories, Pastor was Rev. Joseph A. Sullivan 1970-1973 and Rev. Edgar Kurt 1973-1975. Rev. Richard Gaul served 1970-1972, and Rev. Clarence S. Kruse was the second priest listed 1972-1975.	Marcantonio indexed in Directories only as "on duty outside the diocese", and not listed at St. Cecilia's. The Dubuque archdiocese released information in 2006 that he had been at this parish. St. Cecilia's had a school with 132-116 students and a catechetical school with 471-427 students.
1970	1975	Iowa State College	Ames	IA	Student and assistant chaplain at Iowa State's Newman Center, where he resided.	Marcantonio was a student, earning master's and doctoral degrees in psychology (Associated Press, March 17, 2002). The title of Marcantonio's Master's thesis was "Sex Education in the Home" (per 1998 legal complaint).
1973	1975	Boys Club of Ames	Ames	IA	Member of Board of Directors (per 1998 legal complaint).
1975 Bishop of Fall River diocese was Daniel A. Cronin (1970-1991)	1979	Stonehill College	North Easton	MA	Director of Counseling/Teacher	Directories indicate Marcantonio "on duty outside the diocese". News reports state he returned to Rhode Island in 1975 (Associated Press, March 17, 2002). A 1998 legal complaint states he was at Stonehill College in during these years.
April 1975 Bishop of Providence was Louis E. Gelineau (1971-1997)		Camp-o-reet Boy Scout Camp	Yawgood	RI	Selected to assist Scout Chaplain Rev. Edmund C. Micarelli, along with Revs. William C. O'Connell, and Robert A. Carpentier (per 1998 legal complaint).	Camp-o-reet was a camping and spiritual retreat for young boys. O'Connell and Carpentier both admitted to molesting boys, and Micarelli has been accused of sexually abusing at least seven boys.
1979	1989	Rhode Island College	Providence	RI	Chaplain
1979	1989	St. John Vianney	Cumberland • Multiple accusations of sexually abusing boys while at this parish. (Associated Press, March 17, 2002)	RI	Weekend Pastor	Not indexed or listed in Directories as being at St. John's.
1989	?	Absent on leave	Phoenix	AZ		Moved sometime after 1989 to Phoenix AZ (Providence Journal-Bulletin, July 3, 1994) No longer appears in Directories after 1992. Died Oct. 20, 1999 (Dubuque archdiocese report).

Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: Kenedy & Sons, 1968-1992).

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