Bishop John McGann
Ordained: 1950
Died: 2002
Assigned as follows:
- 1951-1957 St. Ann's (Brentwood, NY)
- 1958-1970 St. Agnes (Rockville Centre, NY)
- 1971 St. Joseph's, Garden City, NY)
- 1972-1976 Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre; Titular Bishop of Morosbisdus; Episcopal Vicar of Suffolk
- 1977-1999 Bishop of Rockville Centre
- 1977-2001 St. Agnes (Rockville Centre, NY)
- 2000-2001 Retired
Summary of Abuse Allegations Against Bishop John McGann:
Bishop John McGann was the Bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre for twenty-five years. According to media reports, in February 2019, two women alleged that Bishop McGann sexually abusing them when they were children in the 1960s and 1970s while he was a priest at St. Agnes in Rockville Centre, New York.
One woman said Bishop McGann was a monsignor when she was abused by him over a five-year period, Monsignor Edward L. Melton for four years, and Father Robert L. Brown for about seven years while they were all at St. Agnes in Rockville Centre. The other alleged victim said Monsignors McGann, Melton, and Mr. John Hanlon, the St. Agnes parish janitor, abused her. Both women said that, in 1967, when they were 11 years old, they were fondled while passed around the laps of priests at a Christmas party in the rectory.
Bishop McGann died in 2002.
In October 2019, the two women and the brother of one of them filed suit alleging child sexual abuse by Bishop McCann.
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