Joseph Vincent Sullivan

Sullivan was credibly accused by several parishioners of sexual abuse, later admitted by the Diocese of Baton Rouge.

[1] He received his early education at local Catholic schools, and began his seminary formation in Missouri.

[2] He then studied at the Sulpician Seminary of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.[1] Sullivan was ordained to the priesthood on June 1, 1946.

[5] After he removed the Claretian Fathers from the chaplaincy at Louisiana State University in March 1979, 51 priests filed a list of grievances with the Holy See.

In October 2009, the Diocese of Baton Rouge paid $225,000 to settle a lawsuit in which a man from Houston, Texas, claimed he was sexually abused by Sullivan as a seminarian between 1978 and 1982.