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Summary of Case: A native of Spain, Llorente was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1934. He spent the next 40 years in remote Alaskan villages, which were served by Jesuits’ Oregon Province. (He wasn’t an official member of the Oregon Province until he requested that status in 1981.) In 1960 Llorente was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives, serving two terms. He also became a well-known writer. Llorente was transferred in 1975 to the Yakima, Washington diocese, and then to the Boise City, Idaho, diocese in 1982. He remained in Boise until he fell ill in November 1988. He died at the Jesuit House Infirmary at Gonzaga University in January 1989. Llorente was accused in a 2004 lawsuit of the sexual abuse in the 1950s of a 6 or 7-year-old native Alaskan boy; his accuser said he abused other young boys during that time as well. In 2005 another man accused Llorente of sexually abusing him in Alaska, when the man was a 4 to 11-year-old boy from 1956-1963. Both accusers were from Sheldon Point, AK.
Ordained: 1934
Died: Jan. 26, 1989
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