Fr. Clarence C. Schoeppner
Monsignor. Schoeppner became vice-chancellor of the archdiocese immediately after ordination, and later chancellor. Accused in a 1994 lawsuit of nonconsensual sexual acts and physical abuse of a girl in 1967, as part of ‘cleaning ritual’ using holy water. The girl and her sister lived at St. Anthony’s Boys School, an orphanage run by the Poor Sisters of St. Francis Seraph of the Perpetual Adoration. Schoeppner retired in 1980 and died in 1991. His name is included on the Santa Fe archdiocese’s list of credibly accused 9/12/2017.
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