Rev. Donald Bolton, C.SS.R./images/title>  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="te./images/html; charset=windows-1252">  </head> <body> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="3" class="header" height="50" valign="middle"><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/" class="header">BishopAccountability.or./images/a> <hr color="#000000"./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr><td colspan="3"> ./images/td./images/tr> <tr> <td width="7%"> ./images/td> <td> <table valign="top" border="0" width="800"> <tbody><tr> <td><p><strong><font color="#CC0000" size="+2">Assignment Record–./images/font./images/strong> <strong><font color="#CC0000" size="+2">Rev. Donald Bolton, C.SS.R./images/font./images/strong><br> <br> <strong>Summary of Cas./images/strong>: Donald Bolton was ordained for the Redemptorist Order's Baltimore Province in 1952. He worked in Brazil for many years, returning to the U.S. in 1970 to a Redemptorist retreat house in Canaidagua NY. From 1974-84 Bolton was assigned to St. Gregory's in North East PA. It was there that the parents of a 7-year-old girl reported to the Redemptorists that Bolton had molested their daughter over a two-year period. He was transferred to a Brooklyn NY parish. When the parents of the little girl discovered he was teaching school in NY, they went to law enforcement. Bolton was charged in November 1986 with indecent assault and corruption of minors. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced in February 1987 to three years' probation. He spent those three years at a Hampton VA retreat house. In 1990 he moved to a New Smyrna Beach FL Redemptorist residence, and to another in Saratoga Springs NY in 2003. He died October 27, 2006.<br> ./images/p> <p><strong>Ordaine./images/strong>: 1952<br> <strong>Died./images/strong> October 27, 2006 <br> ./images/p./images/td> ./images/tr> </tbody./images/table> <br><table border="0" width="800"> <tbody><tr> <td> ./images/td> <td> ./images/td> <td> ./images/td> ./images/tr> </tbody./images/table> <br> <table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellspacing="0" width="802"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="9%"><strong>Star./images/strong./images/td> <td valign="top" width="6%"><strong>Sto./images/strong./images/td> <td valign="top" width="29%"><strong> Assignment./images/strong./images/td> <td valign="top" width="17%"><strong>To./images/Accusation./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"><strong>Sta./images/Countr./images/strong./images/td> <td valign="top" width="8%"><strong>Position./images/strong./images/td> <td valign="top" width="27%"><strong>Note./images/strong./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td height="87" valign="top"><p>195./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Archdiocese of New Yor./images/font./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Archbishop was Francis Joseh Spellman (1939-1967)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">195./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>Mount St. Alphonsu./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>Esopu./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">N./images/td> <td valign="top">student pries./images/td> <td valign="top"><p>This was a Redemptorist Fathers' House of Studies. In the 1954 <em>Director./images/em>, Bolton is indexed as at Mount St. Alphonsus, but he is not listed in the New York pages as there./images/p./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p>195./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Diocese of Corumbá until 1957; under Diocese of Dourados 1957-59. <br> <br> Corumbá bishop was Orlando Chaves, S.D.B. (1948-1956), followed by Ladislau Paz, S.D.B. (1957-1978). Dourados bishop was Jose de Aquino Pereira (1958-1960)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">195./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>Bela Vist./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>Mato Gross./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">Brazi./images/td> <td valign="top"><a href="#shorthand" class="link"./images/./images/a>,./images/5,./images/5,./images/6,./images/./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p>195./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Diocese of Campo Grand./images/font./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Bishop was Antonio Barbosa, S.D.B. (1958-1986)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">196./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>Campo Grand./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>Mato Gross./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">Brazi./images/td> <td valign="top"./images/8,./images/8,./images/./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p>196./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Diocese of Corumbá./images/font./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Bishop was Ladislau Paz, S.D.B. (1957-1978)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">196./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>Bela Vist./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>Matto Gross./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">Brazi./images/td> <td valign="top"./images/4,./images/5<br> Rector; "Very Rev. 1965-6./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p>196./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Diocese of Ponta Gross./images/font./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Bishop was Geraldo Claudio Luiz Micheletto Pellanda, C.P. (1965-1991)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">196./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>Monte Alegr./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>Paran./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">Brazi./images/td> <td valign="top"./images/6,./images/./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p>196./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Diocese of Paranaguá./images/font./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Bishop was Bernardo José Nolker, C.SS.R. (1963-1989)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">197./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>Roci./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>Paran./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">Brazi./images/td> <td valign="top"./images/./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p>197./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Diocese of Rocheste./images/font./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Bishop was Joseph Lloyd Hogan (1969-1978)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">197./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>Notre Dame Retreat Hous./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>Canadaigu./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">N./images/td> <td valign="top"./images/./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td height="338" valign="top"><p>197./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Diocese of Eri./images/font./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Bishop was Alfred Michael Watson (1969-1982), followed by Michael Joseph Murphy (1982-1990)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">198./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>St. Gregory Thaumaturgu./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><p><strong>North Eas./images/strong./images/p> <p><strong>&bull./images/strong> Parents of a 7-year-old girl told the Erie County Assistant D.A. that Bolton had <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/archiv./images/Demare./images/Bolton_Dona./images/1987_08_25_Bergholz_A_Greater.pdf" class="link">molested their daughte./images/a> over a two-year period. The family were St. Gregory's parishioners. They went to law enforcement after discovering that Bolton was teaching at a New York school; they said the Redemptorists had promised them that Bolton would never again work with children./images/p./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">P./images/td> <td valign="top"./images/2,./images/3,./images/3,./images/3,./images/./images/td> <td valign="top"><p>St. Gregory's had a school with 198-260 students./images/p> <p> ./images/p./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p>198./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Diocese of Brookly./images/font./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Bishop was Francis John Mugavero (1968-1990)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">198./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Basilic./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>Brookly./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">N./images/td> <td valign="top"./images/24,./images/23,./images/2./images/td> <td valign="top"><p>Our Lady of Perpetual Help had a grade school with 809-668 students, and a high school (numbers of students not noted)./images/p> <p>Bolton was charged in November 1986 with indecent assault and corruption of minors, due to the allegation he had molested a young girl while assigned to St. Gregory's in North East PA. He <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/archiv./images/Demare./images/Bolton_Dona./images/1987_08_25_Bergholz_A_Greater.pdf" class="link">pleaded guilty./images/a>and was sentenced in February 1987 to three years' probation./images/p./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td height="102" valign="top"><p>198./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Diocese of Richmon./images/font./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Bishop was Walter Francis Sullivan (1974-2003).<br> ./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">199./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>Holy Family Retreat Hous./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>Hampto./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">V./images/td> <td valign="top"./images/3,./images/5<br> "Promotion" 1987-88./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p>199./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Diocese of Orland./images/font./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Bishop was Norbert Mary Leonard James Dorsey, C.P. (1990-2004)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">200./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>St. Alphonsus Villa-Redemptorist Fathers and Brother./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>New Smyrna Beac./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">F./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p>200./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Diocese of Alban./images/font./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Bishop was Howard James Hubbard (1977-2014)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">200./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>St. John Neumann Residenc./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>Saratoga Spring./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">N./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top">Per his Order, Bolton <a href="htt./images//www.bishopaccountability.o./images/news5./images/2006_11_16_SCALA_Bolton_death_notice.pdf" class="link">die./images/a> at October 27, 2006, at age 80./images/td> ./images/tr> ./images/tbody> </table> <table valign="top" border="0" width="800"> <tbody><tr> <td><p><strong><a name="shorthand"./images/a>Priests in a Paris./images/strong>: We use the following convention to show a priest's place among the clergy of a parish:./images/2 means that he is the first priest listed in the <em>Official Catholic Directory./images/em>(usually the pastor) and that there is a total of two priests at the parish. The shorthand ./images/4 means that the priest is listed third on a four-priest roster. See our <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/ia-davenpo./images/hierarchy-ocd-sample.htm" class="link">sample page from the <em>Director./images/em./images/a>.<br><br> <strong>Source./images/strong>: <em>Official Catholic Director./images/em> (Kenedy & Sons, 1953-2011)<br> <br> <strong>•./images/strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/archiv./images/Demare./images/Bolton_Dona./images/1987_08_25_Bergholz_A_Greater.pdf" class="link">A Greater Opennes./images/a>, by Eleanor Bergholz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 25, 1987<br> <strong>&bull./images/strong> <a href="htt./images//www.bishopaccountability.o./images/news5./images/2006_11_16_SCALA_Bolton_death_notice.pdf" class="link">Death./images/a>, SCALA Redemptorist Newsletter, November 16, 2006<br> <strong><br> ./images/strong><br> <strong>Not./images/strong>: The <em>Official Catholic Director./images/em> aims to report the whereabouts of Catholic priests in the United States on January 1 of the <em>Director./images/em>'s publication year. Our working assumption is that a priest listed in the <em>Director./images/em> for a given year was at the same assignment for part of the previous year as well. However, Kenedy and Sons will sometimes accept updates well into the year of publication. Diocesan clergy records are rarely available to correct this information. The <em>Director./images/em> 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 <a href="mailto:staff@bishop-accountability.org" class="link">email u./images/a> with new information and corrections.<br> <br> This assignment record collates Bolton's career history as it is represented in the <em>Official Catholic Director./images/em> with the allegations against him, as reported in the media. We make no representation regarding the truth of the allegations we report, and we remind our readers that the U.S. legal system presumes that a person accused of or charged with a crime is innocent until proven guilty. Similarly, individuals who may be defendants in civil actions are presumed not to be liable for such claims unless a plaintiff proves otherwise. Admissions of guilt or liability are not typically a part of civil or private settlements. For more information, see our <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/db_overview.htm#posting" class="link">posting polic./images/a>.<br> <br> This assignment record was last updated on July 21, 2016./images/p./images/td> ./images/tr> </tbody./images/table> <p><strong><br> ./images/strong./images/p> ./images/td> <td width="7%"> ./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr><td colspan="3"> ./images/td./images/tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" class="sm"><hr color="#000000"> Any original material on these pages is copyright © BishopAccountability.org 2004. Reproduce freely with attribution../images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td> ./images/td> <td> ./images/td> <td> ./images/td> ./images/tr> </tbody./images/table> </body><!-- InstanceEnd --./images/html>