MEMPHIS (TN)
Commercial Appeal
February 18, 2019
By Katherine Burgess
Memphis’ first Catholic bishop has been named on a list of clergy who “have a credible and substantiated allegation of sexual abuse involving a minor.”
The list was released last Wednesday by the Catholic Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, where the Most Rev. Carroll T. Dozier was assigned to three parishes before being appointed the first bishop of the Diocese of Memphis in 1970.
The allegation of abuse was made against Dozier after his death in 1985, according to the list. The list did not give additional details about the allegation.
According to a cached page from the Diocese of Memphis’ website, Dozier’s time leading the diocese was marked “by reconciliation of the races, by ecumenism, by efforts to recognize and begin to fill the needs of the poor and downtrodden, to protect the life of the unborn and to crusade for peace and disarmament.”
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