News and Notices Diocese of Cleveland Downloaded February 24, 2019 and cached https://www.dioceseofcleveland.org/offices/parish-life/child-protection/news-notices The Catholic Diocese of Cleveland posts notices and related articles in an ongoing effort to communicate developments pertinent to the protection of children. The Diocese of Cleveland is committed to publicly identifying those clerics who have sexually abused children within the diocese. The Diocese of Cleveland recognized the importance of publishing information relating to clergy sex abuse long ago and, in 2002, it first began to publish the names of those clerics removed from ministry as a result of sexual abuse of a minor. These postings, which are updated whenever a cleric is removed from ministry as a result of sexual abuse of a minor, can be found below. Currently, the Diocese is in the process of supplementing this information by creating a list of the names of all clerics who, as best it can be determined, sexually abused a minor and/or who were permanently removed from ministry as a result of sexual abuse of a minor at any time in the past. This list, once completed, will be posted on this webpage along with the information already posted below. • April 2002 - Statement from the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland [list of 10 priests placed on leave in 2002 and 12 no longer in ministry] • June 7, 2007 - Notice of Priest Placed on Administrative Leave [Fr Patrick Henry] • November 29, 2007 - Two Priests No Longer in the Clerical State [Fr Gary D. Berthiaume and Fr J. Brendan McNulty] • December 26, 2008 - Priest No Longer in the Clerical State [Fr Donald P. Brickman] • December 14, 2009 - Resigned Priest Sentenced in Elyria Case [Fr Patrick J. O’Connor] • August 26, 2011 - Notice of Priest Placed on Administrative Leave [Fr Mathew Ischay] • April 29, 2013 - Priest No Longer in the Clerical State [Fr Patrick Henry] • November 17, 2014 - Priest No Longer in the Clerical State [Fr Patrick J. O’Connor] • March 5, 2015 - Life of Prayer and Penance Imposed on a Diocesan Cleric [Fr Joseph Lieberth] • March 19, 2015 - Priest No Longer in the Clerical State [Fr Russell Banner] • July 21, 2015 - Priest No Longer in the Clerical State [Fr Richard Arko] • August 19, 2016 - Priest No Longer in the Clerical State [Fr David C. Weber] • May 15, 2018 - Notice of Priest Placed on Administrative Leave [Fr Theodore Lucas]

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