The Catholic Archdiocese of Newark has agreed to pay out two six-figure settlements to men who said they were sexually abused by Father Nicholas DiMarzio , who spent years as a priest in the North Jersey diocese before rising to serve as bishop in Camden and Brooklyn.

The settlements were announced at an Aug. 6 online news conference by Mitch Garabedian, an attorney who has represented numerous clergy abuse victims around the country.

The accusers — Mark Matzek, now 62, and Samir Tadros, 52 — say DiMarzio abused them in the 1970s when they were young children in two Jersey City parishes. Matzek said the abuse "stopped when the boy told his mother that he wanted to quit being an altar server," said Garabedian.

DiMarzio, who retired as Brooklyn's bishop in 2021, has steadfastly maintain

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