Rev. Miles O'Brien Riley Ordained: 1963 |
Start | Stop | Parish/Assignment | Town/Accusations | State | Position | Notes |
1963 San Francisco archbishop was Joseph Thomas McGucken (1962-1977) |
1964 | CA | Riley is not indexed in the 1965 Directory. His ordination date is per a website professional bio. | |||
1964
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1968 | St. Raphael's | San Rafael | CA | 3/6, 2/5 | St. Raphael's had a school with 400-335 boys and 404-319 girls. |
1964 | 1968 | San Quentin State Prison | San Rafael | CA | ||
1968 | Radio Ministry | This assignment is per news reports. | ||||
1968 | 1970 | St. Paul's |
San Francisco | CA | 2/4, 2/5 | St. Paul's had an elementary school with 447-436 boys and 443-407 girls, and a high school with 450 girls. |
1970 McGucken was succeeded by John Raphael Quinn (1977-1995) |
1982 | Mission Dolores Basilica | San Francisco • Riley was accused in the 1990s of having sexual contact with a girl beginning when she was 16 years-old in the early 1970s. |
CA | 5/5, 4/4 In residence. |
Mission Dolores had a school with 298-270 boys until 1976, when it became coed. From 1976-1982 the school had 285-240 students, male and female. Riley is said to have established a communications center for the archdiocese in 1970. |
1982 | 1989 | St. Gabriel | San Francisco | CA | 4/4, 5/5 In residence. |
St. Gabriel had a school with 545-456 students. |
1989 | 1991 | Special Assignment: Catholic Communications | San Francisco | CA | Riley was a "longtime voice" of the archdiocese, and was known for his many appearances on a tv show called "The God Squad". | |
1991 | 1995 | St. Catherine of Siena | Burlingame | CA | 3/3, 3/4 | St. Catherine's had a school with 313-320 students, and a religious education program with 144-175 students. |
1992 | 1994 | Special Assignment: Pastoral Commission | San Francisco | CA | ||
1995 William Joseph Levada replaced Quinn (1995-2005) |
2002 | Special Assignment: Communications | San Francisco | CA | ||
1995 | 2002 | St. Mark's | Belmont | CA | 3/3, 2/3 | St. Mark's had a religious education program with 135-175 students. The archdiocese gave the information it had received in the 1990s regarding the accusation involving a 16 year-old girl in the early 1970s to the District Attorney in 2002. |
2002 Levada was followed as San Francisco archbishop by George Hugh Niederauer (2005-) |
2010 | Retired | Riley was allowed to quietly retire in 2002 after the accusation against him was revisited. In 2011 Riley remains active with the International Speakers Bureau. |
Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1965-2010) • S.F. Archdiocese Quietly Removing Accused Priests, By Jaxon Van Derbeken, San Francisco Chronicle, August 29, 2002
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