filed against the Diocese of Greensburg. One of the new lawsuits was filed on behalf of a former Blairsville man who claimed at age 11 he was molested by Rev. Giles Nealen, who died in 1996, at the St. Benedict Parish in Marguerite during the summer of 1968. The other lawsuit claimed the Rev. Leonard Bealko molested a 12-year-old altar boy more than 200 times over four years that ended in 1978 at Transfiguration Church in Mt. Pleasant, his home and a church-owned rectory in Clymer. On August 26, 2020, police arrested Fayette County priest Andrew Kawecki for sexually abusing a altar boy on multiple occasions from 2004 to 2007, beginning when the alleged victim was 11. His arrest warrant was issued by Shapiro. The same day, Bishop Malesic, who was leaving the Diocese of Greensburg to become Bishop of Cleveland, announced that the Diocese of Greensburg found sex abuse allegations against Rev. Emil Payer, who had been convicted of stealing money his South Huntingdon church, to be "credible." On June 22, 2020, Malesic and the Diocese of Greensburg were both named as defendants in a new sex abuse lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by a man alleging that both parties covered up reports that former Diocese of Greensburg priest Rev. Joseph L. Sredzinski, who served in Fayette County and died in 2015, started sexually abusing him in 1991, when he was 11 years old, and continued to do so until he was 17 years old. On November 20, 2020, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied a petition filed by the Diocese of Greensburg to grant a stay which would've delayed an ongoing lawsuit against the Diocese. See also Catholic Church by country Catholic Church in the United States Ecclesiastical Province of Philadelphia Global organisation of the Catholic Church List of Roman Catholic archdioceses (by country and continent) List of Roman Catholic dioceses (alphabetical) (including archdioceses) List of Roman Catholic dioceses (structured view) (including archdioceses) List of the Catholic dioceses of the United States References External links Roman Catholic Diocese of Greensburg Official Site Christian organizations established in 1951 Greensburg Greensburg 1951 establishments in Pennsylvania