Cardinal Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua
Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn 1980-83. Pittsburgh bishop 1983-87. Archbishop of Philadelphia 1987-2003. Named Cardinal 1991. Retired 2003. Died 1/31/12. Accused in a lawsuit filed in 9/18 by a woman who said he groped her chest behind a partition in the school lunchroom on a visit in the 1980s to St. Gabriel’s in Whitehall. She also claimed abuse by Revs. Lawrence O’Connell and Edward Huff, when she was ages 5-13, 1978-1985, at St. Gabriel’s.
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