Odore Joseph Gendron

[2] He attended Sacred Heart School in Manchester and before continuing his education in Canada, where he studied at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

[3] On December 12, 1974, Gendron was appointed the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Manchester by Pope Paul VI.

After fifteen years as bishop, Gendron submitted his letter of resignation to Pope John Paul II on June 12, 1990.

Court papers released in January 2003 showed that Gendron destroyed records of sexual abuse by two different priests during the 1980s.

[6] In a 2003 report by the New Hampshire Attorney General, it was revealed that Gendron helped a priest accused of sexual abuse avoid criminal charges.

In 1975, police in Nashua, New Hampshire arrested Paul Aube, a diocese priest, after find him with a boy in a car, both with their pants down.