Assignment Record – Bishop George E. Rueger Ordained: 1958 |
Start | Stop | Parish/Assignment | Town/Accusations | State | Position | Notes |
1958 Worcester bishop was John Joseph Wright (1950-1959), who was succeeded by Bernard Joseph Flanagan (1959-1983) |
1963 | Our Lady of Lourdes | East Millbury • Rueger was accused in a 2003 lawsuit of having raped a 13 year-old Our Lady of Lourdes altar boy in the early 1960s. Rueger's accuser said the abuse happened at a summer vacation home in Scituate on several occasions, and that Rueger plied him with alcohol. |
MA | 2/2 | |
1963 | 1965 | St. Peter's | Worcester | MA | 4/5, 3/5 | St. Peter's had a school with 315-376 boys and 269-316 girls. |
1965 | 1966 | Our Lady of Mercy School for Exceptional Children | Worcester | MA | 2/3 In residence. | Per the Directory, this was a private elementary school for the "educable mentally retarded", with 34 girls, and 43 boys. |
1965 |
1972 1974 |
Marian High School | Worcester | MA | Headmaster | Marian High had 420-740 students, all girls. Rueger is not listed as at Marian High School in the 1973 Directory (someone else is listed as Headmaster for that year). |
1966 | 1974 | St. George's | Worcester | MA | 3/3 In residence. | |
1974 | 1977 | Our Lady of the Lake | Whalom-Fitchburg | MA | 2/2 | |
1978 | 1980 | Diocesan School Department | Worcester | MA | Superintendent | |
1977 | 1981 | Sacred Heart | Hopedale | MA | 1/3, 1/2 | |
1981 Flanagan was replaced by Timothy Joseph Harrington (1983-1994) |
1987 | St. Peter's | Worcester | MA | 1/5, 1/3, 1/4 | Rueger was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Worcester Jan. 19, 1987 and consecrated Feb. 25, 1987. |
1987 Daniel Patrick Reilly succeeded Harrington as Worcester bishop (1994-2004), followed by Robert Joseph McManus (2004-) |
2012 | Vicar General | Worcester | MA | Rueger was kept in ministry after an accusation surfaced in 2002 that he had sexually abused a boy in the early 1960s. Rueger denied the accusation. | |
1987 | 2005 | Diocesan Educational Services | Worcester | Director | ||
1987 | 2011 | Diocesan Consultors | Worcester | |||
1987 | 2005 | Building Commission | Worcester | |||
1990 | 2005 | Diocesan Expansion Fund | Worcester | |||
1990 | 1995 | Pro-Life Office | Worcester | Director | ||
1993 | 2005 | Diocesan Archives | Worcester | Archivist | ||
1996 | 2005 | Presbyteral Council | Worcester | |||
2002 | 2005 | Collaborative for Education and Ministry: Institute for Academic and Pastoral Development | Worcester | Chairman | ||
2002 | 2006 | Holy Childhood Association | Worcester | Director | ||
2003 | 2011 | Propogation of the Faith | Worcester | |||
1987 1998 |
1996 |
St. Stephen's | Worcester | MA | 3/3, 3/4, 2/2, 2/3 In residence. | Rueger is listed as at 2 High Ridge, which was the Bishop's residence, in the 1997 and 1998 Directories, and is not listed as at St. Stephens for those years. He retired in 2005. |
Sources: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1959-2011) • Popular Pastor Placed on Leave, By Richard Nangle, Telegram & Gazette, August 3, 2002
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