A searchable database of the thousands of Catholic clergy who have been "credibly accused" of sexual abuse across the country was published Tuesday and includes hundreds of members of the dioceses and religious orders in the New York City area.

The database, compiled by ProPublica, relies on lists that were published by dioceses. The 178 disparate lists have been compiled into one database for the first time.

The Archdiocese of New York had 126 names on their list of accused clergy, which was first published in April 2019.

The Diocese of Brooklyn, which includes Queens, had 121 names. Their first published list of accused clergy appeared in February 2019.

The database also had information on smaller orders in the New York area including the Dominican Province of St. Joseph which had 25 names on their list first published in November 2018, and Paulist Fathers which had 13 names on their list released in March 2019. The Jesuits of the USA Northeast Province had 52 men on their list released in January 2019.

The ProPublica project staffers said they were inspired to compile the database after it became clear the standards of disclosure varied immensely among the different dioceses. "But even as bishops have dedicated these lists to abuse victims and depicted the disclosures as a public acknowledgement of victims’ suffering, it has become clear that numerous alleged abusers have been omitted and that there is no standard for determining who each diocese considers credibly accused," the journalists wrote.

The database also comes almost a year after the New York Child Victims Act was signed into law on February 14, 2019, which created a one-year window for adult survivors of child sexual abuse to sue an abuser or a negligent institution, no matter how long ago the abuse happened. The Catholic Church, along with some other organizations, had opposed the passage of the bill for years, and after the CVA was passed last year, victim advocates pressured Archdiocese of New York head Cardinal Timothy Dolan to release the names of accused clergy.

Some dioceses and religious orders have yet to release lists of their accused clergy, including the Diocese of Rockville Centre in Long Island, according to ProPublica.

The Diocese of Rockville Centre's website did not have a list of names of accused clergy, but noted that 370 people have filed claims with them related to sexual assault by clergy: "In 2017, we initiated our Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program (IRCP) to provide a confidential mechanism for survivors to receive compensation and some measure of healing and justice," the diocese said on its website. "To date, 370 people have filed claims with our IRCP. The vast majority of claimants – 277 to be exact – have accepted compensation totaling just over $50 million, with 75-80 claims still being processed."

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, has for decades been pressuring the church to release the names of clergy accused of abuse and related records. "They continue to be as secretive as possible, parceling out the least amount of information possible and only under great duress," said David Clohessy, who led the group for nearly 30 years, to ProPublica. "They are absolute masters at hairsplitting — always have been and still are. Do we now know the names of more predator priests than before? Yes, of course. Are we anywhere near full transparency? Absolutely not.”

ProPublica published an in-depth story about the church's lack of transparency to go with the database -- read it in full here.