Former WNY priest accused of sex abuse

NEW YORK
WIVB

By Rich Newberg
Updated: Friday, November 8, 2013

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A priest who used to be an assistant high school principal in Hamburg has been accused of sexually abusing one of his former students.

Fr. Michael Kolodziej has now been banned from public ministry. The Buffalo Diocese and other dioceses where he once worked are asking if anyone else may have been abused by the priest.

Kolodziej was ordained in Buffalo in 1970 and first served as a hospital chaplain. Later he was a teacher and assistant principal at St. Francis High School in Athol Springs, Associate Pastor at St. Mary of Sorrows Church, and teacher at Bishop Turner High School and Villa Maria College.

During his time as a teacher Baltimore’s Archbishop Curly High School, from 1975 to 1979, one of his former students now has come forward saying he was sexually abused by Kolodziej.

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