Fr. Robert Fitzpatrick
Placed on leave 8/27/2015 after the Archdiocese received a credible allegation that Fitzpatrick sexually abused a minor in the 1980s. Pastor at the time of Corpus Christi in St. Paul and St. Rose of Lima in Roseville. In the 1980s he was associate pastor of Holy Spirit in St. Paul and pastor of St. John the Evangelist in Little Canada. The Archdiocese announced 3/17/2016 that Fitzpatrick would be returned to ministry, saying law enforcement cited “a lack of evidence and the statute of limitations.” The Archdiocese also stated that its Review Board said no “reasonable basis to find that the alleged abuse occurred.”
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