Bishop Leonard P. Cowley
Identified 2/11/15 as accused of abusing a minor. A man reportedly filed a claim alleging he was molested as a child by Cowley in 1968 when the boy was 15, on a trip to northern Minnesota. Cowley was a pastor at the Basilica of St. Mary in the 1960s and a bishop from 1957 until his death in 1973.
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