Joseph Francis Maguire

Joseph Francis Maguire (September 4, 1919 – November 23, 2014) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

[3] He received his episcopal consecration on February 2, 1972, from Cardinal Medeiros, with bishops Jeremiah Minihan and Thomas Riley serving as co-consecrators.

[4] On December 27, 1991, Pope John Paul II accepted Maguire's resignation as bishop of the Diocese of Springfield.

In 2012 it was revealed that Maguire and former Springfield Bishop Thomas Dupre approved a $500,000 settlement in a sexual abuse case.

The plaintiff, Andrew Nicastro, claimed that he was sexually abused as a minor by Alfred F. Graves, a diocesan priest, from 1982 to 1985.

[7] At the time of the settlement, Maguire made this statement:I only wish that in 1976 as a new bishop, I could have foreseen the true nature of one who violated our trust with such devastating harm to his victims.