Ordained, 1926

Notes: Fr. Delisle Lemieux was ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Denver. Fr. Lemieux was accused of abusing a minor altar boy on a camping trip in approximately 1969. He was included in the Colorado Attorney General’s Special Master’s Report on “Roman Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children in Colorado from 1950 to 2019.” Fr. Lemieux’s whereabouts and whether he had access to children from 1967 until his death in 1977 are unknown.

Assignments within the Archdiocese/Diocese(s) in Colorado: Denver

Assignments:

1926-1929 Unknown

1930-1931 St. Vincent De Paul, Denver, CO (DEN)

1932-1934 Catholic University, Washington D.C., (WDC)

1935 Unknown

1936-1966 St. Catherine, Denver, CO (DEN)

1967-1977 Retired (DEN)

1977 Died

Fr. Stephen Kiesle

• 1972: Ordained
• 1973-1975: St. Joseph’s, Pinole, CA
• 1974-1975: Contra Junior College, El Cerrito, CA
• 1975-1978: Pre-Seminary Advisory Board
• 1976-1978: Our Lady of Rosary, Union City, CA
• 1979: St. Columba’s, Oakland, CA
• 1979-1981: Active leave
• 1982-2018: Unknown

Notes: Fr. Stephen Kiesle has been accused of sexually abusing at least 15 children from approximately 1972 to 1995. In 1978, Fr. Kiesle was arrested for sexually abusing two boys and as a result, he was put on three years’ probation and received counseling. In 1981, Fr. Kiesle left the priesthood and the diocese of Oakland submitted papers to the Vatican requesting that Fr. Kiesle be defrocked, but the Vatican waited until 1987 to do so. During this time, he reportedly left the priesthood and moved to Pinole, California where he worked as a youth minister at St. Joseph’s from 1985 until 1988. In 2002, he was arrested and charged on 13 counts of child sexual abuse that took place while he worked at Santa Paula during the 1960s and 1970s. However, all but two of the charges were dropped due to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that changed the law surrounding the statutes of limitation. In 2004, he was accused of sexual abusing a 15-year-old girl and was sentenced to six years in prison. Fr. Kiesle was released on parole in 2009. After 7 months of being released, he violated his parole and had to go back to prison until 2010. Upon release, he became a registered sex offender and moved to Rossmoor, a senior community, in Walnut Creek, California. Fr. Kiesle has been named in numerous civil lawsuits. Fr. Kiesle’s current whereabouts and whether he has access to children are unknown.