SAN FRANCISCO — The president of San Francisco Theological Seminary resigned from his post May 1 and four days later was found guilty of two counts of sexual abuse in a church trial.
Donald W. McCullough, president of the Presbyterian Church (USA)-affiliated school for six years, faces a sentencing hearing May 22. He could be rebuked, suspended or lose his clergy credentials.
According to the church, McCullough was involved with two adult women while he was pastor of a San Diego church from 1980 to 1994 and after he was elected president of the school in 1994.
McCullough, in a letter to seminary trustees, said he was stepping down because of “inappropriate conduct” that occurred before he was installed as president. The school’s trustees issued a short statement thanking McCullough for his six years of “exemplary service” but said, “The board is determined, with Donald, that it was no longer possible for him to continue as president.”
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