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Summary of Case: A native of Holland, Linssen began his Jesuit seminary studies in the Netherlands Province. Because he wanted to work in Alaska, he transferred to the Oregon Province where he was ordained in 1950. He began his career in Alaska in 1952 based at Holy Cross Mission, followed by several years in Hamilton and then Nelson Island. Linssen died during a storm while on a boat downriver from Bethel in 1960. In 2010 his name was included in the the Fairbanks diocese’s bankruptcy documents on a list of ‘Individuals against whom one person has brought a complaint of sexual abuse’.
Ordained: June 17, 1950
Died: Sept. 1960
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