CONNECTICUT
Greenwich Time
Daniel Tepfer
Published 5:54 pm, Tuesday, October 7, 2014
A former Greenwich priest, suspended following allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage boy in the early 1980s, has died.
Robert P. Morrissey, 69, who served as a parochial vicar at St. Mary Church on Greenwich Avenue several decades ago, died last week in Jupiter, Fla., where he had been living. He was buried Tuesday in a family plot in Flushing, N.Y.
In 2002, Morrissey was removed from active ministry, shortly after resigning his position as pastor of St. Mary Parish in Ridgefield, following accusations that he and two other priests, the Rev. Albert McGoldrick, pastor of St. Paul Church in Greenwich, and the Rev. Sherman Gray, pastor of Holy Name of Jesus Church in Stamford, had sexually assaulted a boy from 1979 to 1983, beginning when the victim was 15.
At the time of the alleged abuse, Gray and McGoldrick were assigned to parishes in Stamford and Morrissey was at a Greenwich parish — although it was unclear Tuesday whether or not that parish was St. Mary. After the allegations became public, all three were suspended from the priesthood.
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