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Summary of Case: Gansmann was ordained a priest of the Springfield, IL – based Franciscan Province of the Sacred Heart in 1935.
He ministered in Chicago and Joliet schools and parishes until 1948, when he was transferred to the St. Paul archdiocese. In 1959 he was moved back to Chicago for a year, and then to Nashville, TN, where he pastored a parish until his death in 1974. In 2007 a man reported to the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese that he was sexually abused by Gansmann in Minnesota many decades previously. Archdiocesan officials deemed his allegations credible; documents show they also had reason to believe the man wasn’t Gansmann’s only victim. The allegations against Gansmann weren’t made public by the archdiocese until February 2014.
Ordained: June 24, 1935
Died: May 21, 1974
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