Bishop Michael Joseph Bransfield

Current Role

Former Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston
Official Web Site: http://www.dwc.org/
Mailing Address: Chancery Office, 1300 Byron St., P.O. Box 230, Wheeling, WV 26003, USA
Telephone: (304)233-0880
Fax: 233-0890

What’s Been Reported

• Good friend of Theodore McCarrick.
• Rector at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (1986-2004), serving under McCarrick (2000-2005).
• McCarrick was a co-consecrator when Bransfield was made a bishop in 2005.
• President, the Papal Foundation, serving with McCarrick who co-founded the organization.
• Accused of sexual abusing a boy in a 2012 Philadelphia, PA trial.
• Pope Francis accepted Bransfield resignation on September 13, 2018