BishopAccountability.org
 
 

Rev. Robert F. Marrer

Ordained: 1950

Start Stop Assignment Town State Position Notes
1951 1954 St. John Vianney Minor Seminary Bloomfield

(Steubenville diocese)
OH 6/8, 7/8 Taught high school and junior college philosophy.
1954 1960 St. Peter's Steubenville

(Steubenville diocese)
OH 3/3, 3/4, 2/4, 2/5 Parish had a school with 462-507 students.
1957 1960 St. Paul's

Pottery Addition

(Steubenville diocese)

OH   St. Paul's was a mission for St. Peter's.
1960 1966 Our Lady of Fatima

Brilliant

(Steubenville diocese)

OH 1/1  
1960 1966 Chancery Position: Diocesan Director of Public Relations Steubenville diocese OH    
1966 1967 Chancery Position: Director of Entertainment Commission Steubenville diocese OH    
1966 1969 Catholic Student Center of Ohio University, Christ the King Chapel Athens

(Steubenville diocese)
OH 1/3 Allegations surfaced in 2006 that Marrer raped a 3 to 6 year old girl between 1966-1969, while at Christ the King.
1969 1983 Absent on leave       The 1983 Directory is the last in which Marrer appears. According to the Ohio University Post, 2/27/06, he left the priesthood in 1971 and died in 1996.

Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: Kenedy & Sons, 1952-1984).

Priests in a Parish: We use the following convention to show a priest's place among the clergy of a parish: 1/2 means that he is the first priest listed in the Official Catholic Directory (usually the pastor) and that there is a total of two priests at the parish. The shorthand 3/4 means that the priest is listed third on a four-priest roster. See our sample page from the Directory.

Note: The Official Catholic Directory aims to report the whereabouts of Catholic priests in the United States on January 1 of the Directory's publication year. Our working assumption is that a priest listed in the Directory for a given year was at the same assignment for part of the previous year as well. However, Kenedy & Sons will sometimes accept updates well into the year of publication. Diocesan clergy records are rarely available to correct this information. The Directory is also sometimes misleading or wrong. We have tried to create an accurate assignment record, given the source materials and their limitations. Assignment records are a work in progress and we are always improving the records that we post. Please email us with new information and corrections.

 
 

Any original material on these pages is copyright © BishopAccountability.org 2004. Reproduce freely with attribution.