Robert E. Guglielmone

Robert Eric Guglielmone (born December 30, 1945) is an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Charleston from 2009 until 2022.

[1] Guglielmone was appointed pastor of St. Frances de Chantal Parish in Wantagh, New York, in 1993, and was raised by the Vatican to the rank of monsignor in 1996.

In 2003, after the publication of a grand jury report on the handling of sexual abuse cases in the diocese, Bishop William Murphy named Guglielmone as the diocesan director of clergy personnel.

Guglielmone's vigil name is Nekama Auwen Allohumasin Lilenowag An Unt (He Who Exemplifies God's Law).

He received his episcopal consecration on March 25, 2009, from Cardinal Edward Egan, with Bishops Murphy and Robert Baker serving as co-consecrators, at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Charleston.

[4][2] Guglielmone published a list of priests, deacons, seminarians and members of religious orders within the diocese with credible accusations of sexual abuse of minors on March 29, 2019.

[2] On August 9, 2021, Guglielmone temporarily suspended Reverend Wilbroad Mwape, the pastor at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Greenville, South Carolina.

A female parishioner had sued Mwape, stating he manipulated her into a sexual relationship while he was posted at Holy Trinity Parish in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

The plaintiff alleged that Guglielmone and the diocese were covering up sex abuse committed against him by Reverend Robert Kelly at St Andrew Parish in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in the early 1990's.