NEW JERSEY
Mount Olive Chronicle
Posted: Monday, July 15, 2013
By PHIL GARBER, Managing Editor
MOUNT OLIVE TWP. – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson did an about face on naming a Colombian priest to lead St. Jude’s Parish in Budd Lake after a Bergen County man claimed he had been involved in an abusive sexual relationship with the priest.
The diocese pulled the appointment of the Rev. Brando Ibarra and instead named the Rev. Jesus “Father Antonio” Givira, also a native of Columbia, to the St. Joseph post.
Givara was appointed after the former pastor, the popular Rev. Joseph “Father Joe” Orlandi left his post to care for his ailing mother in Italy.
And while Ibarra was not named to lead St. Jude’s Church, he remains the pastor at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Passaic.
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