A former priest who served Catholic Churches in Fitchburg and Leominster in the late 1990s and early 2000s and accused of sexually abusing a teenager in 1993 has been laicized, or defrocked, according to the diocese. It was announced by diocese Bishop Robert J. McManus that Peter J. Inzerillo had been defrocked on Thursday at his request.
Inzerillo, according to the diocese, was "dispensed" from the clerical state by Pope Francis and as a result he cannot function in any capacity as a priest or be referred to as a priest or as a "Father" in writing in any announcements or obituaries.
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