Rev. Emmerich Vogt, O.P.

Assignment History– Rev. Emmerich W. Vogt, O.P.

Summary of Case: Emmerich William Vogt was ordained in 1978 for the Order of Preachers, Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus - Western Dominican Province. He served parishes in the Oakland CA diocese and in the the San Francisco CA, Portland OR and Los Angeles CA archdioceses. He also taught on the high school and college levels. He was Provincial of the Western Dominican Province 2006-2011. Vogt was accused in a February 2016 lawsuit of having sexually abused a 10-year-old altar boy in Portland OR. The lawsuit was dropped in May 2017 after the plaintiff's brothers testified that they were altar boys with him whenever he was with Vogt, and that no abuse happened.

Ordained: 1978

Start	Stop	Assignments	Town/Accusations	State	Position	Notes
1978 Diocese of Oakland Bishop was John Stephen Cummins (1977-2003).	1979	St. Mary Magdalen	Berkeley	CA	5/5 In residence.	St. Mary Magdalen had a school with 238 students.
1979	1981	St. Mary's College	Moraga	CA	In residence.
1981	1984	St. Thomas Aquinas Priory	Berkeley	CA		This was a Dominican residence.
1984	1986	St. Mary's College	Moraga	CA	In residence.
1986 Archdiocese of San Francisco Archbishop was John Raphael Quinn (1977-1995).	1987	St. Dominic Priory	San Francisco	CA
1987 Diocese of Oakland Bishop was John Stephen Cummins (1977-2003).	1990	St. Mary's College	Moraga	CA	In residence.
1990 Archdiocese of Portland OR Archbishop was William Joseph Levada (1986-1995).	1995	Holy Rosary Parish & Dominican Priory	Portland • Vogt was accused in a February 2016 lawsuit of sexually abusing an altar boy here, over a 10-year period. The abuse is said to have involved, "extended kissing, extended hugging, touching," and "graphic sexual conversations." Vogt's accuser said he told other priests about the abuse at the time, but they told him to obey Vogt.	OR	6/7, 2/5, 3/6, 3/5	The 1995 Directory shows the parish had a religious education program with 173 students.
1995	1996					Vogt is not indexed in the 1996 Directory, nor is he listed in the diocesan pages as at his previous or next assignments.
1996 Diocese of Oakland Bishop was John Stephen Cummins (1977-2003).	1999	Dominican Order, Siena House	Oakland	CA	1/6 Superior; Mission Band
1999 Archdiocese of Los Angeles Archbishop was Roger Michael Mahony (1985-2011).	2000	St. Dominic	Los Angeles	CA	3/3 In residence.	St. Dominic's had a school with 511 students, and a religious education program with 275 students.
2000 Archdiocese of Portland OR Archbishop was John George Vlazny (1997-2013).	2003	Holy Rosary Parish & Dominican Priory	Portland	OR	1/7, 1/8 Pastor and Prior	Holy Rosary had a religious education program with 161-190 students.
2003 Archdiocese of San Francisco Archbishop was William Joseph Levada (1995-2005), followed by George Hugh Niederauer (2005-2012).	2006	St. Dominic	San Francisco	CA	"Very Rev." 1/8	St. Dominic's had a school with 237 students, and a religious education program with 80 students.
2003	2006	St. Dominic Priory	San Francisco	CA
2003	2008	Shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus	San Francisco	CA	Director
2006 Diocese of Oakland Bishop was Allen Stephen Vigneron (2003-2009), followed by Salvatore Joseph Cordileone (2009-2012).	2011	Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus - Western Dominican Province	Oakland	CA	Prior and Provincial
2011 Archdiocese of Los Angeles Archbishop was José Horacio Gómez Velasco (2011-).	2013	Monastery of the Angels (Contemplative)	Los Angeles	CA	Chaplain	Monastery for cloistered Dominican nuns.
2013	2014	St. Dominic	Los Angeles	CA	7/7 In residence.	St. Dominic's had a school with 214 students, and a religious education program with 185 students.
	2017					Vogt's accuser dropped his lawsuit in May 2017 after his brothers testified that they were altar boys with him whenever he was with Vogt, and that there was no abuse.

Priests in a Parish: We use the following convention to show a priest's place among the clergy of a parish: 1/2 means that he is the first priest listed in the Official Catholic Directory (usually the pastor) and that there is a total of two priests at the parish. The shorthand 3/4 means that the priest is listed third on a four-priest roster. See our sample page from the Directory.

Source: Official Catholic Directory (Kenedy & Sons, 1979-2014).

• Lawsuit Claims Priest Sexually Abused Portland Boy, By Kellee Azar, KATU, February 26, 2016
• Advocates for Victims Aim to Put a Spotlight Back on Priest Abuse in Portland, By Kellee Azar, KATU, March 19, 2016
• About Our Founder, the 12-step-review.com
• Abuse case against Dominican dismissed, By Ed Langlois, Catholic Sentinel, May 3, 2017

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This assignment record was last updated on July 5, 2017.