Reverend Robert L. Brennan, the former associate pastor of a Northeast Philadelphia Catholic parish, has been charged with rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and aggravated indecent assault, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office said in a press release Thursday.

Brennan is accused of sexually assaulting an altar boy at Resurrection of Our Lord Parish in Northeast Philadelphia, where he was an assistant pastor, between 1998 and 2001, beginning when the boy was 11, according to the press release.