CALIFORNIA
BishopAccountability.org – Assignment Record
Summary of Case: Tod David Brown was ordained in 1963 in the Monterey-Fresno diocese. After the diocese split in 1967, Brown became a prominent priest of the diocese of Monterey. In December 1988 he was named bishop of Boise, ID. Brown served in Boise until 1998, when he was named bishop of Orange, CA. In a 1997 letter to the bishop of the Fresno diocese, a man claimed to have been molested by Brown in Bakersfield, CA in 1965, when the man was a 12 year-old boy. Brown denied the claim. Fresno bishop Steinbock told Brown’s accuser that he had to be interviewed by a psychologist (of Stienbock’s choosing) before there could be an investigation. No one interviewed Brown. The diocese deemed the accusation to be without merit. In 2004, Bishop Brown released the names of those accused in his diocese. He did not include his own name, explaining in 2007 that the omission was, …”because it was very embarrassing and very painful.” Brown remains Bishop of Orange.
Ordained: 1963
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