Fr. Edward James Cleary
First named publicly as accused on the Nashville diocese’s list 11/2/2018. Incardinated into the Memphis diocese in 1971. Cleary died 11/10/1997. Included on the Knoxville diocese’s list as of 3/6/2020; the diocese was established in 1988 from the Diocese of Nashville.
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