Assignment Record – Rev. John F. Hurley, s.j.

Summary of Case: John F. Hurley was ordained a priest of the Jesuits' Oregon Province in 1945. In 1947 he began his life-long career at Gonzaga Preparatory High School in Spokane. He died in 1998. Hurley's name was included on a 2007 list of priests working in the Spokane diocese who were " admitted, proven or credibly accused perpetrators of sexual abuse." Details of accusations against him were not provided. In December 2018 the Order announced that the allegations against Hurly were mistakenly connected to him, and were actually against Rev. James P. Hurley, sj.

Ordained: 1945
Died: October 1998

1945

San Francisco archbishop was John Joseph Mitty (1935-1961).

1946

Albany bishop was Edmund Francis Gibbons (1919-1954).

1947

Spokane bishops were Charles Daniel White (1926-1955), Bernard Joseph Topel (1955-1978), Lawrence Harold Welsh (1978-1990), and William Stephen Skylstad (1990-2010).

Sources: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, (1946-1998)

• Vigil Service, Spokesman Review, October 20, 1998
• Non-Monetary Undertakings of the Spokane Diocese, Diocese of Spokane , November 21, 2007

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This assignment record was last updated on January 4, 2019.