MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 02/17/2014
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has released names of nine additional priests with “credible claims against them of sexual abuse of a minor.”
The names were released Monday after a review of clergy files by Kinsale Management Consulting, a Los Angeles agency hired by the archdiocese, officials said in a statement posted to the archdiocese website.
All have died or otherwise been removed from ministry.
The priests are:
— Robert Blumeyer; worked at St. Boniface in Hastings and St. Bartholomew in Wayzata; died 1983.
— Gerald Funcheon; worked at St. Odilia in Shoreview and St. Stephen in Anoka; now lives in Dittmer, Mo.
— Kenneth Gansmann; served at St. John’s of Union Hill, near New Prague; died; date of death unknown.
— Thomas Gillespie; worked at St. Bernard in St. Paul and St. Mary’s in Stillwater; now lives in Collegeville.
— Michael Kolar; served as assistant director and director, Catholic Youth Center in St. Paul; lives in St. Paul.
— Kenneth LeVan; worked at St. Michael in St. Paul, St. Anne in Minneapolis, Guardian Angels in Oakdale, St. Joseph in Lino Lakes, and other locations; lives in Oakdale.
— Francisco (Fredy) Montero; served as chaplain to the Hispanic community, Sagrado Corazon de Jesus, Minneapolis; now believed to be living in Ecuador.
— James Stark; served at St. Stephen’s in Anoka, St. Andrew’s in St. Paul, Nativity in Bloomington, Holy Spirit in St. Paul, St. Peter’s in Richfield; St. Michael in Farmington; died 1999.
— Harold Walsh; served at St. Pius X in White Bear Lake, Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in St. Paul, St. Stephen in Minneapolis, Holy Trinity in South St. Paul, St. Henry in Monticello; retired 2001.
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