Seven Former Hoboken Priests Appear On 'Credibly Accused' List

HOBOKEN, NJ — The journalism site ProPublica, a Patch partner, recently released the most comprehensive list so far of Catholic clergy "credibly accused" of sexual abuse. The list includes seven accused abusers who at some point worked in Hoboken.

The searchable database — which includes nearly 200 priests accused from the dioceses of Newark, Metuchen, Trenton, Camden and Paterson — comes on the heels of newer news reports identifying hundreds of "predator" priests across the state.

Here are the priests on the list with Hoboken ties:

Joseph P. Fagan

Status: Deceased
Birth Year: 1911
Ordination year: 1937
Reported assignment history:

• Little Flower, Berkeley Heights
• St. Charles Borromeo, Newark
• Our Lady Of Grace/St. Joseph, Hoboken
• Christ the King, Jersey City

Robert Chabak

Status: Permanently removed from ministry
Birth Year: 1946
Ordination year: 1972
Reported assignment history:

• Holy Family, Nutley
• St. Valentine, Bloomfield
• Ss. Peter and Paul, Hoboken
• St. Theresa, Kenilworth
• Christ the King, Hillside
• St. Mary of the Assumption, Elizabeth

Michael Campanlonga

Status: Permanently removed from ministry
Birth Year: 1936
Ordination year: 1962
Reported assignment history:

• Immaculate Conception, Newark
• Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford
• Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken
• Holy Rosary Academy, Union City
• Assumption, Emerson
• St. Anthony, Northvale
• St. Philomena, Livingston

William McCann

Status: Deceased
Birth Year: 1899
Ordination year: 1925
Reported assignment history:

• St. Aloysius, Jersey City
• Holy Trinity, Westfield
• Ss.Peter and Paul, Hoboken
• Army Chaplain
• Our Lady Help of Christians, East Orange
• St. Francis, Ridgefield Park
• St. Philomena, Livingston

Gerald Sudol

Status: Permanently removed from ministry
Birth Year: 1954
Ordination year: 1980
Reported assignment history:

• Holy Family, Nutley
• St. Francis of Assisi, Ridgefield Park
• St. Ann (Polish), Jersey City
• Chaplain - St. Francis Community Center, Jersey City
• Holy Rosary, Jersey City
• Mount St. Andrew Villa, Paramus
• Padre Pio Friary, Hoboken

Francis T. Maione

Status: Permanently removed from ministry
Birth Year: 1939
Ordination year: 1965
Reported assignment history:

• St. Lucy, Newark
• Catholic Community Services, Newark
• Blessed Sacrament/St. Charles Borromeo, Newark
• American College, Louvain
• St. Pius X, Old Tappan
• Holy Family, Union City
• Immaculate Conception Seminary, Mahwah
• Our Lady of Grace/St. Joseph, Hoboken
• Our Lady of the Visitation, Paramus

Alan Guglielmo

Status: Permanently removed from ministry
Birth Year: 1942
Ordination year: 1968
Reported assignment history:

• Immaculate Conception, Secaucus
• St. Anthony of Padua, Newark
• Chaplain - Columbus Hospital, Newark
• Chaplain - St. Michael Medical Center, Newark
• St. Valentine, Bloomfield
• Chaplain - Mountainside Hospital, Montclair
• Chaplain - Clara Maas Hospital, Belleville
• Sacred Heart, Lyndhurst
• Chaplain, St. Mary Hospital, Hoboken
• St. Mary, Jersey City
• Spiritual Director, CYO Hudson, Jersey City
• Chaplain - Hudson Catholic Regional HS, Jersey City
• St. Aedan's the St. Peter's University Church, Jersey City
• St. Michael, Union
• Roselle Catholic, Roselle
• Mother Seton Regional High School, Clark
• St. Helen, Westfield
• Assumption, Roselle Park

Along with the list, ProPublica outlined the challenges of identifying offenders long after such widespread abuse became known. The database is a collection of 178 lists released by U.S. dioceses and religious orders as of Jan. 20. There are still more than 40 dioceses and religious orders that have not released information, including five out of seven Florida dioceses.

New Jersey enacted a law last month that extends the statute of limitations in civil actions on sexual abuse claims, creating a two-year window to file cases for which the statute of limitations had previously expired. A number of law firms have announced they were filing lawsuits. Attorneys from Rebenack, Aronow & Mascolo, LLP and Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala PLLC (PCVA) said they planned to file 38 lawsuits on behalf of dozens of abuse survivors.

The ProPublica project was prompted by a massive grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania that was described by Associated Press as the "biggest and most exhaustive ever" into priest sex abuse by an individual state. The investigation revealed many priests admitted to their actions and were allowed to continue in the ministry for years despite having confessed to molesting children.