Assignment Record – Rev. Christian Roy |
Start | Stop | Parish/Assignment | Town/Accusations | State/Country | Position | Notes |
1975 Portland bishop was Edward Cornelius O'Leary (1974-1988). |
1976 | St. Augustine's |
Augusta | ME | 2/2 | St. Augustine's had a school with 305 students. |
1976 | 1979 | St. Joseph's | Biddeford | ME | 2/3, 2/4 | St. Joseph's had a school with 455-411 students. |
1979 | 1981 | St. Ignatius Martyr | Sanford | ME | 2/2 | |
St. Thomas School | Sanford | ME | chaplain | This assignment is per news reports. | ||
1981 | 1986 | Holy Family | Lewiston | ME | 3/4, 2/4 | |
1981 O'Leary was succeeded by Joseph John Gerry, O.S.B. (1988-2004). |
1993 | Diocesan Catholic Scouting | Portland • Roy was accused in 1993 of sexually abusing a minor from 1983-1990. |
ME | chaplain | |
1986 | 1991 | St. Bernard's | Rockland | ME | 1/1, 1/2 | |
1986 | 1991 | St. James' | Thomaston | ME | This was a mission of St. Bernard's in Rockland. | |
1987 | 1991 | St. Michael's | Station Waldoboro | ME | This was a mission of St. Bernard's in Rockland. | |
Maine State Prison | Thomaston | ME | chaplain | |||
1991 | 1993 | St. Francis of Assisi | Belfast • Roy was sued in 1994 by a woman claiming the priest had a sexual relationship with her husband, after the couple went to the priest for marriage counseling. |
ME | 1/1 | |
1991 | 1993 | St. Mary of the Isles | Isleboro | ME | This was a mission of St. Francis of Assisi in Belfast. Roy is not listed beyond the 1993 Directory. Per news articles, he was removed from active ministry in 1993 after an allegation surfaced that he had sexually abused a minor. He was laicized in 2006. |
Sources: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1976-1993) • Wife Sues Priest, Portland Diocese, Suit Claims Cleric, Husband Had Affair, Bangor Daily News (Maine), November 7, 1994
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