St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, Westchester County, NY. Reports of sex abuse and bankruptcy By August 2019, 68 clergy who served in the Diocese of Rockville Centre were "credibly accused" of committing acts of sex abuse. Some were either convicted for their crimes or agreed to pay financial settlements. Former priest Robert E. Guglielmone, who was later appointed Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston in South Carolina, was also revealed to have been named as a defendant in a sex abuse lawsuit in the state of New York and is accused of committing acts of sex abuse while serving in the Diocese of Rockville Centre. On May 8, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo extended the 2019 New York Child Victims Act's statute of limitation deadline to file sex abuse lawsuits from August 14, 2020 to January 14, 2021. On May 13, 2020, a Nassau County Supreme Court justice allowed pending lawsuits against the Diocese of Rockville Centre to proceed after rejecting claims that the New York Child Victims Act, which serves as the legal basis for the upcoming sex abuse lawsuits, violated due process. In June 2020, the Diocese of Rockville Centre, which also suffered significant financial damage from the COVID-19 pandemic, filed court documents which stated that the Diocese will file for bankruptcy if there is no pause in nearly 100 pending sex abuse lawsuits. On October 1, 2020, the diocese of Rockville Center became the fourth diocese in New York state to file for bankruptcy as a result of the sexual abuse litigations. An April 15 2021 bankruptcy filing documents allegations against some former priests who hadn’t previously been publicly accused of abuse. In total, the Diocese listed 101 accused clergy members, though a committee of unsecured creditors has published 46 more names Bishops Bishops of Rockville Centre Walter P. Kellenberg (1957–1976) John R. McGann (1976–2000) James T. McHugh (2000; coadjutor bishop 1998–2000) William F. Murphy (2001–2017) John O. Barres (2017–present) Current auxiliary bishops Andrzej Jerzy Zglejszewski (2014–present) Robert J. Coyle (2018–present; previously Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, 2013–2018) Luis Miguel Romero Fernández (2020–present) Former auxiliary bishops Vincent John Baldwin (1962–1979) John R. McGann (1970–1976), appointed Bishop of this diocese Gerald Augustine John Ryan (1977–1985) James Joseph Daly (1977–1996) Alfred John Markiewicz (1986–1994), appointed Bishop of Kalamazoo Emil Aloysius Wcela (1988–2007) John Charles Dunne (1988–2013) Paul Henry Walsh (2003–2012) Peter