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Summary of Case: Bernard “Barney” McMeel was ordained a priest of the Jesuits’ Oregon Province in 1954. For more than two decades he ministered in the Fairbanks, Alaska diocese with a short stint later on in the diocese of Juneau. From 1979 until his death in 1994, McMeel worked at St. Paul Indian Mission on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in the diocese of Great Falls, Montana. McMeel was accused in a 2006 lawsuit, along with Rev. Andrew Eordogh, s.j., of having sexually abused a boy in Holy Cross, Alaska, beginning when the boy was 4 years-old in 1967. Hs accuser said McMeel “handed him off” to Eordogh when McMeel left in 1968 to become Superior Regular of Jesuits in Alaska.
Ordained: 1954
Died: Jan. 6, 1994
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