He presided at Our Lady of Annunciation Church in Queensbury and St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Glens Falls, and was found guilty in 2011 of child rape and indecent assault for sexually assaulting teens he met through the local parishes when he took them to western Massachusetts for outdoors outings. He has previously been the subject of civil litigation for abuse of dozens of local boys as well.

Mercure also spent time at parishes in the Albany area, and he was sued Wednesday for alleged abuse of a boy while he worked at Our Lady of Assumption in Latham, according to the office of lawyer Jeff Anderson.

The firm also filed lawsuits against the Rev. Morris Dwyer and Monsignor Francis X. Ryan, two priests who had local ties decades ago.

Dwyer was assigned to Catholic churches in South Glens Falls and North Creek in the 1970s, but the lawsuit against him alleges abuse in the 1950s at a church in central New York.

Ryan was assigned to St. Mary’s in Glens Falls in the 1930s and 1940s, and he has been accused of child sexual abuse while at churches in Troy and Colonie.