Fr. Patrick Joseph Dinya
Extern priest from the Diocese of Dodoma in Tanzania living at St. Leo’s in St. Paul while attending the College of St. Thomas. He received a Master’s degree in Education in 1970. In a 1991 civil suit, a woman claimed Dinya sexually abused her during marital and emotional counseling in 1968. The suit also claimed he abused a mentally challenged teenage girl in 1968, and that the Diocese and Church were informed of that abuse and transferred him to another parish. Dinya apparently left the priesthood and went on to a long career in education. He died in 2010 in Minneapolis.
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