Father Leonard A. Abercrombie

Archdiocese of Denver

Known Assignments:

• 1946: St. Joseph, Golden, CO
• 1946-1950: St. Francis de Sales, Denver, CO
• 1950-1953: Air Force chaplain, CO
• 1953: St. Therese, Aurora, CO
• 1953-1956: St. Anthony, Hugo, CO
• 1956-1962: Sacred Heart, Roggen, CO
• 1962-1964: St. Francis de Sales Cathedral, Baker City, OR
• 1964-1966: All Saints, Denver, CO
• 1966-1969: St. Peter, Kremmling, CO
• 1969-1972: Chaplain, St. Anthony Hospital, Denver, CO
• 1972-1993: Chaplain, Veterans Affairs Research Hospital, Mission Hills, CA

Summary of Sexual Abuse allegations against Father Leonard A. Abercrombie:

In 1993, Father Leonard A. Abercrombie was accused of abusing a boy between 1953 and 1957 in a letter Abercromber’s victim wrote to Pope John Paul II. Father Abercrombie admitted to the abuse to a victim’s sister in 1992. In 2002, Abercrombie was also accused of sexual abuse in a civil lawsuit filed in Colorado. Father Abercrombie is accused of abusing at least nine boys.

Father Abercrombie was ordained in 1946. He died in 1994.

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