| Assignment Record – Rev. Vincent A. Orlando, s.j. Summary of Case: Vincent A. Orlando was ordained a Jesuit priest of the New Orleans Province in 1974. He worked as an educator in Jesuit high schools in Dallas and Houston, TX and in Tampa, FL. In April 2002 he was removed from ministry after a report was made to the New Orleans Province that in 1985, when Orlando was assigned to Strake Prep. in Houston, he engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor. The Jesuits acknowledged in May 2002 that this was not the first complaint against Orlando. In 1984 a Strake student told school officials that Orlando tried to inpappropriately touch him during a school ski trip. The New Orleans Province was informed; civil authorities were not. Orlando was "admonished" and kept his job at Strake until a transfer to Tampa in 2000. He is known to have been living since 2003 in a Jesuit community in New Orleans. Ordained: 1974 |
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| Start | Stop | Parish/Assignment | Town/Accusations | State/Country | Position | Notes |
| 1974 | 1975 | France | ||||
1975 Dallas bishop was Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe (1969-1990). |
1979 | Jesuit College Preparatory School | Dallas | TX | Jesuit Prep. had 711-700 students, all male. | |
1979 Galveston-Houston bishop was John Louis Morkovsky (1975-1984). |
2000 | Strake Jesuit College Preparatory School | Houston • In 1984 a Strake student reported to school officials that Orlando tried to touch him inappropriately during a school ski trip. Civil authorities were not informed; the Jesuits "admonished" Orlando. The accusation, which Orlando denied, wasn't made public until 2002. • Orlando was accused in 2002 of sexual misconduct with a minor in 1985. His accuser, who informed the New Orleans Province, was not a Strake student at the time. The Jesuits deemed the allegation credible. |
TX | Principal 1979-1984 | Strake had 556-743 students, all male. |
2000 St. Petersburg bishop was Robert Nugent Lynch (1995-). |
2002 | Jesuit High School | Tampa | FL | computer and math teacher | Jesuit High had 679-664 students, all male. Orlando was removed from ministry in April 2002 after an allegation emerged that he had engaged in "sexual misconduct" with a minor in 1985, in Houston. |
| 2002 | 2003 | Orlando is not indexed in the 2003 Directory. | ||||
2003 New Orleans archbishop was Alfred Clifton Hughes (2002-2009), follwed by Gregory Michael Aymond (2009-). |
2012 | Ignatius Residence | New Orleans | LA |
Sources: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1975-2012) • 3 More Ex-Jesuit Staffers Accused, Ex-Maintenance Official at School Denies Abuse; 2 Teachers Also Named, Dallas Morning News
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