the spirit of Vatican II. In 1974, Joseph V. Sullivan of Kansas City, Missouri, became Baton Rouge's second bishop. In 1983, one of the original priests of the diocese, Bishop Stanley Joseph Ott, was named the third Bishop of Baton Rouge. In November 1993, Auxiliary Bishop Alfred C. Hughes of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, was installed as Baton Rouge's fourth bishop. In February 2001, Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop Hughes as Coadjutor Archbishop of New Orleans, where he subsequently succeeded the metropolitan archbishop in January 2002. Since their retirement in 2009, they served as a professor for Notre Dame Seminary in the city of New Orleans. 2018 sexual abuse scandal In February 2018, a lawsuit for sexual abuse which was filed against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge and one of its priests, Father Jeff Bayhi, in 2009 by alleged abuse victim Rebecca Mayeux and her parents, due to the reliance on what another priest heard in confession as a major source of evidence. Bayhi was accused in the lawsuit of acknowledging that Rebecca Mayeux confessed to her that she was sexually abused by George Charlet Jr., another priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, and that both Bayhi and the diocese refused to report the abuse to law enforcement. The Louisiana Supreme Court had previously ruled that the Catholic Seal of Confession is legally protected, with a diocese lawyer also noting that breaking the seal triggers automatic excommunication. However, the lawsuit against the estate of Charlet, who died in 2009, remained ongoing. In January 2019, the Roman Catholic diocese released the names of 37 former clergy who had been accused of committing acts of sexual abuse while serving the diocese. The diocese added four more names to the list in February 2019, two more names in July 2019, two more names in January 2020, and another name in July 2020, bringing the current total to 46. Bishops Bishops of Baton Rouge Robert Emmet Tracy (1961-1974) Joseph Vincent Sullivan (1974-1982) Stanley Joseph Ott (1983-1992) Alfred Clifton Hughes (1993-2001), appointed Archbishop of New Orleans Robert William Muench (2002-2018) Michael Gerard Duca (2018–present) Other priests of this diocese who became bishops William Donald Borders, appointed Bishop of Orlando in 1968 and later Archbishop of Baltimore Shelton Fabre, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans in 2006 and later Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux. He is now the Archbishop of