MISSOURI
Webster Kirkwood Times
October 24, 2014
Rev. John J. Ghio, who most recently served at Annunciation Catholic Parish in Webster Groves, has been suspended by the Archdiocese of St. Louis following allegations of sexual abuse.
Archbishop Robert J. Carlson announced Ghio’s suspension this week in a letter to archdiocesan parishes. The abuse was alleged to have occurred in the early 1980s.
Ghio is currently retired from active ministry and resides in a monitored environment, according to the archdiocese. He joined Annunciation Parish as priest in residence in June 2011, and had previously spent time at other St. Louis area parishes.
“I have suspended Father Ghio’s priestly faculties until a canonical process is concluded,” Carlson said in a statement.
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