MINNESOTA
Albert Lea Tribune

Two priests who served in Albert Lea, plus one in both New Richland and Wells, were identified on the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona’s list of priests accused of sexually abusing minors.

The southeastern Minnesota diocese filed the list in Ramsey County District Court on Monday. That’s a day before the deadline set by a Ramsey County judge.

All four of the priests served in the 1950s and ’60s. They are the following:

• Thomas Adamson, now 80, who served a stint at St. Theodore Catholic Church in Albert Lea in the 1960s who faces a civil lawsuit in Ramsey County over allegations of sexual abuse. He was also released on the list released last week of accused priests by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

Adamson served in the St. Theodore Catholic Church parish in 1967 and 1968, at which time he was…