Leonard Abercrombie

Ordained: 1946

Leonard Abercrombie was accused of molesting several children in both California and Colorado.  Abercrombie served in Colorado from 1946 to 1972 until he relocated to California, where he served from 1972 to 1994.  Three Colorado men came forward and accused Abercrombie of molesting them before he moved to California.  According to a letter released by the Los Angeles Archdiocese, in 1993, the church was notified of Abercrombie’s repeated abuse of one boy, beginning when he was 7 years-old and a camper at Camp St. Malo, near Estes Park, Colorado, where Abercrombie was the chaplain.   The letter claims that the Denver diocese of the Roman Catholic Church covered up Abercrombie’s predation of children for years.  Letters detailing Abercrombie’s molestation were widely circulated throughout the church, and were sent to Pope John Paul II in 1993 and again in 2003.  Abercrombie died in 1994 at age 73.

Father Abercrombie's Assignments

Articles about Father Abercrombie

• Denver Post - Priest Named in Calif. Lawsuit: The Late Rev. Leonard A. Abercrombie, Who Three Colorado Men Say Molested Them before He Moved to the West Coast, Was Working at a Veterans Hospital (13/09/2005)