Norbert Orsolits: Substantiated Allegations of Abuse of a Minor

Norbert Orsolits

 

 

  • 1965: Ordained
  • 1966: St. Joseph, Bliss, NY (Missionary)
  • 1967: St. John the Baptist, Alden, NY
  • 1968: St. John the Evangelist, Buffalo, NY
  • 1969-1970: St. John Kanty, Buffalo, NY
  • 1971-1973: St. John Gualbertus, Cheektowaga, NY
  • 1974: Our Lady of Czestochowa, Cheektowaga, NY
  • 1975-1977: St. James, Depew, NY
  • 1978: St. James, Buffalo, NY
  • 1979: Awaiting assignment
  • 1980-1981: St. John Vianney, Orchard Park, NY
  • 1982-1983: St. Mary of the Angels, Olean, NY
  • 1984-1988: Sacred Heart, Portville, NY
  • 1989: Absent on leave
  • 1990: St. Lawrence, Buffalo, NY
  • 1991-1992: Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, NY (chaplain); St. Lawrence Church, Buffalo, NY (in residence)
  • 1993-1995: Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, NY (chaplain); Deaconess Hospital, Buffalo, NY (chaplain); St. Lawrence Church, Buffalo, NY (in residence)
  • 1996-2000: Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, NY (chaplain); St. Lawrence Church, Buffalo, NY (in residence)
  • 2001-2003: Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, NY (chaplain); Hospice of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (chaplain); St. Lawrence Church, Buffalo, NY (in residence)
  • 2004-2016: Retired (P.O. Box 91, Springville, 14141)
  • 2017-2018: Unknown
  • Notes: Fr. Norbert F. Orsolits was sent to Southdown Institute in Canada for treatment following an allegation of child sexual abuse. In 2018, Fr. Orsolits admitted to sexually abusing “probably dozens” of teenage boys in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Fr. Orsolits is believed to have taught at Archbishop Walsh High School in Olean, New York, from approximately 1984 to 1988.