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Summary of Case: Ordained in 1954, Louis E. Gelineau was a priest of the Burlington diocese for 27 years. He was named Bishop of Providence in December 1971, serving in that role until his 1997 retirement. Gelineau was accused in a 1997 lawsuit of having attempted to fondle and then drown a boy in the early 1950s at a Burlington orphanage. Gelineau was a seminarian at the time and worked at the orphanage during the summers. He denied the accusation in a 1997 deposition. In the same deposition Gelineau denied having had sexual contact with an altar boy in 1993.
Ordained: June 5, 1954
Ordained Bishop: Jan. 26, 1972
Retired: 1997
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