Fr. John William Vovko

Ordained: 1968
Status: Convicted

Died: 12/22/2010
Diocese: Diocese of Phoenix AZ

Ordained for the Diocese of Cleveland. Transferred to AZ in about 1986. Mesa High School teacher. Convicted in 1990 and sentenced to one year in jail for trying to molest a two-year-old boy. Lifetime probation. Teaching certificate was to have been revoked. Shown as “absent on leave” from Cleveland in the 1988 Catholic Directory. Died in 12/2010. Included on the Cleveland diocese’s list of credibly accused 6/21/2019.


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