# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-shanley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:39:49.521Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-shanley"
name: "Paul Shanley"
slug: "paul-shanley"
description: "Paul Richard Shanley was an American Roman Catholic priest who became the center of a massive sexual abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts. Beginning in 1967, the archdiocese covered up numerous allegations of child sexual assault against Shanley and facilitated his transfers to other states."
tagline: "Defrocked American priest (1931-2020)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1931-01-25"
deathDate: "2020-10-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.928118666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shanley"
    title: "Paul Shanley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "بول شانلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shanley"
    title: "Paul Shanley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shanley"
    title: "Paul Shanley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shanley"
    title: "Paul Shanley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shanley"
    title: "Paul Shanley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3566423"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump