Rev. John G. O'Flaherty, s.j.-Assignment Record

Assignment Record – Rev. John G. O'Flaherty, s.j.

Summary of Case: John G. O'Flaherty was a Jesuit of the Missouri Province ordained in 1942. He served in parishes in St. Louis and Kansas City, and as a hospital chaplain in Monett, MO. He was also assigned at various times to Pueblo and Denver, CO. He died in 1987. O'Flaherty was accused of abuse in a 2011 civil complaint filed in Pueblo, CO.

Ordained: 1942
Died: June 19, 1987

Start	Stop	Parish/Assignment	Town/Accusations	State/Country	Position	Notes
1942 Cleveland bishop was Joseph Schrembs (1921-1945).	1943	St. Stanislaus Novitiate	Cleveland	OH
1943 St. Louis archbishop was John Joseph Glennon (1903-1946), followed by Joseph Elmer Ritter (1946-1967).	1954	St. Francis Xavier College Church	St. Louis	MO	4/4, 3/4, 3/3	St. Francis Xavier's had a school with 170-113 students, and a girls' high school until 1951 with 170-202 students.
1954 Pueblo bishop was Joseph Clement Willging (1941-1959), followed by Charles Albert Buswell (1959-1979).	1962	Our Lady of the Assumption	Pueblo • O'Flaherty was named as an abuser in a March 2011 civil complaint filed in Pueblo.	CO	2/2, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3	Our Lady of the Assumption had a school beginning in 1958 with 119-251 students.
1962 Kansas City-St. Joseph bishop was Charles Herman Helmsing (1962-1977).	1969	St. Francis Xavier	Kansas City	MO	1/3	St. Francis Xavier's had a school with 586-472 students.
1969	1971					The 1970 and 1971 Directories index but do not list O'Flaherty in the diocesan pages as at St. Francis Xavier in Kansas City, MO.
1971 Springfield-Cape Girardeau bishop was William Wakefield Baum (1970-1973).	1972	St. Vincent's Hospital	Monett	MO	chaplain
1972 St. Louis archbishop was John Joseph Carberry (1968-1979).	1974	Jesuit Community at St. Louis University	St. Louis	MO
1974	1976	St. Ignatius Loyola	Denver	CO	4/4, 3/3	St. Ignatius had a school with 154-162 students.
1976	1977					The 1977 Directory indexes but does not list O'Flaherty in the Diocesan pages as at St. Ignatius Loyola in Denver.
1977 Denver archbishop was James Vincent Casey (1967-1986).	1979	Regis College	Denver	CO	In residence.
1979 Kansas City-St. Joseph bishop was John Joseph Sullivan (1977-1993).	1980	Rockhurst Collge	Kansas City	MO
1980 Denver archdiocese	1986	Regis College	Denver	CO		O'Flaherty died June 19, 1987, Fusz Pavilion St. Louis, MO.
1986 Carberry was succeeded as St. Louis archbishop by John Lawrence May (1980-1992).	1987	Fusz Pavilion	St. Louis	MO		O'Flaherty was moved at some point to Fusz Pavilion, which was a skilled care facility for Jesuits. O'Flaherty died June 19, 1987

Sources: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1943-1988)

• Amended Complaint in John Doe 24 et al v. Bishop of Pueblo, Cause No. 2010CV561, Pueblo Co. District Court

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This assignment record was last updated on June 24, 2014.