Charles Salatka

Charles Alexander Kazimieras Salatka (February 26, 1918 – March 17, 2003) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

[3] In September 1972, Salatka established a tribunal as a start of the canonization process for Frederic Baraga, an early bishop of what was then the Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie and Marquette in Michigan.

[1] He founded the Office of Hispanic Ministry in the 1970s and learned to speak Spanish at age 68 so that he could celebrate mass in that language.

On October 3, 1981, Salatka celebrated a funeral mass in Oklahoma City for Stanley Rother, a priest from the diocese.

[8] Pope John Paul II accepted Salatka's resignation as Archbishop of Oklahoma City on November 24, 1992.

The plaintiff Casey Johnson claimed that he was sexually molested three times as a minor during the 1990s by James Rapp, a priest at Assumption Parish in Duncan, Oklahoma.

Rapp had been accused of sexually abusing children at a Catholic junior high school in Jackson, Michigan in the 1980s.