Fr. Bede Parry

Accused in a 6/2011 lawsuit of sexually abusing a boy in 1987 at a summer choir camp. Parry was at the time a Benedictine priest and boys’ choir director at Conception Abbey in northwest MO; he had been affiliated with the abbey since 1973. In 1981 he admitted to the abbott he had been involved in three “inappropriate relationships” 1973-1979. He was dismissed in 2002 and on 10/15/2004 became an Episcopal priest in Las Vegas. After the lawsuit was filed in 2011 he resigned. Parry admitted to the abuse of several. A second suit was filed in 7/2011. Parry died 11/27/2013. His name was included on the Las Vegas diocese’s list 4/12/2019. (No known allegations there.) On the Conception Abbey Benedictines’ list 8/5/2019. Included on the Santa Fe archdiocese’s list 5/19/2021, which notes assignments there in 1978, 1990 and 1992.