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Summary of Case: John S. “Jack” Harrington was ordained a Jesuit priest of the Oregon province in 1948. He went on to teach for 25 years – at Seattle University in Seattle WA, and then at Gonzaga University and Gonzaga Preparatory High School in Spokane WA. In 1976 Harrington was assigned to a parish in Havre MT, where he stayed almost twenty years, before being transferred to a parish in Missoula MT. He was an assistant priest at both. Harrington retired in the early 2000s to the Jesuits’ Regis Community in Spokane. He died March 5, 2004. Harrington’s name name was included in 2011 on the Oregon Province’s list of its members who have been identified as perpetrators of sexual abuse.
Ordained: 1948
Died: March 5, 2004
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