The diocesan Sexual Abuse Review Board deemed accusations against John Eberhardy credible, making him the eighth priest the diocese says has substantiated allegations of abuse. Eberhardy died in 1992, according to the diocese.

The diocese has previously named seven clergymen that had accusations of child sexual abuse substantiated by the diocesan Sexual Abuse Review Board: Archie Adams, Curtis Alvarez, J. Gibbs Clauder, Kenneth Klubertanz, Lawrence Trainor, Michael Trainor and Gerald Vosen.

All have either died or been removed from the priesthood.

Others left out?

But the organization Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, claimed Friday four additional former priests who at some point worked within the Madison Diocese have been either credibly accused of abuse by other dioceses or criminally convicted.

Brent King, spokesman for the diocese, said the diocese “either has no record of, or any allegations against the four individuals identified by SNAP,” adding that the Madison Diocese stands by its statement last week that “it can be confident that there are no known historical issues in its files regarding the sexual abuse of minors left uninvestigated or undisclosed.”