Fr. Barry Finbar Coyle

First identified publicly as accused on Santa Fe archdiocese list 9/12/2017. Assigned to Santa Fe Cathedral 1959-1974; worked from there as Franciscan vocations director for the Southwest. Later worked in the New Orleans archdiocese and the Baton Rouge diocese. Died 2/6/1991. Last listed in the 1988 Directory; death entry in the 1992 Directory shows his location as St. Mary of the Angels, a Franciscan parish in New Orleans. The 1989-1991 Directories do not show him as assigned to that parish. During his time in Santa Fe a/k/a Finbar. Listed in Directory as Barry thereafter. Included on the Baton Rouge diocese’s list in early 2019. Added to New Orleans’ list in 2020. On the Fort Wayne-South Bend diocese’s list in 12/2020; one credible allegation of abuse there; assigned 2/1973-6/1974 to St. Therese in Fort Wayne. On Las Cruces list in 11/2020; at St. Peter’s in Roswell in 1965. On the Cincinnati archdiocese’s list in 2/2022. Included in 6/2022 on the St. John the Baptist Province Franciscans list. In his victim’s statement for the Santa Fe archdiocese’s bankruptcy proof of claims, an alleged victim said that when he was in 7th grade at St. Peter’s in Roswell and Coyle was assigned to St. Francis Cathedral 1968-1969, the priest sexually abused him, including rape on four occasions. This accuser also said that he was abused by a Brother Thomas, Brother John and Fr. Donald Starkey and that all of the abuse occurred when he was ages 12-14.