Gregory J. Lisby — All Saints Episcopal Church, Worcester
An Episcopal rector and kindergarten teacher who pleaded guilty in 2020 to possessing child pornography and was sentenced to six years in federal prison.
Mainline Protestant Pleaded guilty (2020)
- Person
- Gregory J. Lisby
- Role
- Priest; rector; kindergarten teacher
- Institution
- All Saints Episcopal Church, Worcester, Massachusetts
- Location
- Worcester, Massachusetts
- Status
- Pleaded guilty (federal, February 2020)
- Sentence
- Six years in federal prison (September 18, 2020)
Case in brief
Tier 1 · Court-proven
Gregory J. Lisby was an Episcopal priest, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a kindergarten teacher. He pleaded guilty in February 2020 to one count of possession of child pornography — hundreds of images in an online storage account, per federal investigators — and was sentenced on September 18, 2020, to six years in federal prison. At sentencing, prosecutors revealed a sexual encounter with a teenage boy; Lisby was not charged for that encounter because the boy had recently turned 16, the Massachusetts age of consent.
The institution
All Saints Episcopal Church, Worcester, and the school where Lisby taught kindergarten. No institutional-knowledge finding is in the record this file rests on; the case is filed as an individual prosecution, and as an instance of the charge-data limit this archive documents: conduct revealed at sentencing that could not be charged because of an age-of-consent line.
The record
Tier 1 · Court-proven
| Item | Record |
|---|---|
| Plea (February 2020) | Guilty — possession of child pornography (federal) |
| Sentence (September 18, 2020) | Six years in federal prison |
| Not charged | Sexual encounter with a teenage boy revealed at sentencing; no charge because the boy had recently turned 16 |
Status
Plea and sentence of record (2020).
Records requested & responses
This archive has not filed records requests in this case. The file rests on the published sources below and will be updated if court or institutional records are obtained, or if that changes.
Sources
- The Living Church, “Former priest sentenced to six years for child pornography” (plea; six-year federal sentence): livingchurch.org
Filed October 18, 2026, from the published sources below. Minor victims are never named or identified in this file.