Rev. Gregory H. Poser, o.s.c.

Assignment Record– Rev. Gregory H. Poser, o.s.c.

Summary of Case: Gregory Poser was ordained for the The Canons Regular of the Order of the Holy Cross (Crosiers) in 1975. He worked in parishes in the Archdioceses of St. Paul-Minneapolis MN, and the Dioceses of Kalamazoo MI and St. Cloud MN. He lived at various times in Crosier communities in the Dioceses of Ft. Wayne-South Bend IN and St. Cloud MN, and the Archdioceses of Chicago IL and St. Paul-Minneapolis MN. In 1991 he was transferred to Indonesia, where he lived and worked as a missionary for many years. In 2003 he returned to MN, where he assisted simultaneously at three parishes and a mission church. Poser was suspended from those assignments in May 2016, when the diocese received a report that he had sexually abused a minor when he was working at Shoreview MN parish in the 1970s.

Ordained: 1975

Start	Stop	Assignments	Town/Accusations	State/ Country	Position	Notes
1975 Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis MN Archbishop was John Robert Roach (1975-1995).	1978	St. Odilia's	Shoreview • Poser was accused in 2016 of sexually abusing a minor in the 1970s while assigned to St. Odilia's.	MN	2/3	St. Odilia's had a school with 429-470 students.
1978 Diocese of Kalamazoo MI Bishop was Paul Vincent Donovan (1971-1994).	1979	Immaculate Conception	Three Rivers	MI	2/3	Immaculate Conception had a school with 101 students.
1978	1979	St. Joseph's	White Pigeon	MI		This was a mission of Immaculate Conception in Three Rivers.
1978	1979	St. Clare's	Centreville	MI
1979 Diocese of Ft. Wayne-South Bend IN Bishop was William Edward McManus (1976-1985).	1982	Crosier House of Studies	Ft. Wayne	IN	Vocations 1979-80; Residency Director 1979-80 and 1981-82. Chaplain1980-82.
1982	1983	Crosier Retreat Center	Ft. Wayne	IN
1983	1984	Crosier Fathers and Brothers	Garrett	IN
1984 Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis MN Archbishop was John Robert Roach (1975-1995).	1985	St. Odilia's	Shoreview	MN	2/5	St. Odilia's had a school with 504 students.
1985 Diocese of Kalamazoo MI Bishop was Bishop was Paul Vincent Donovan (1971-1994).	1989	St. Joseph's	Kalamazoo	MI	1/5, 1/4	St. Joseph's had a school with 243-222 students.
1989 Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis MN Archbishop was John Robert Roach (1975-1995).	1990	Crosier Community of Anoka	Anoka	MN	In residence.
1990 Archdiocese of Chicago IL Archbishop was Joseph Louis Bernardin (1982-1996).	1991	Crosier Community of Chicago	Chicago	IL
1991	2003	Crosier Foreign Missions	Irian Jaya	Indonesia		The Crosiers did missionary work among the Asmat tribes of Irian Jaya beginning in 1958.
2003 Diocese of St. Cloud Bishop was John Francis Kinney (1995-2013), followed by Donald Joseph Kettler (2013-).	2016	Crosier Monastery	Onamia	MN
2007	2011	Pastoral Council	St. Cloud	MN
2004	May 2016	St. Rita's	Hillman	MN	3/3	St. Rita's had a religious education program with 59-41 students.
2004	May 2016	The Church of the Holy Cross of Onamia	Onamia	MN	3/3	Holy Cross had a religious education program with 51-30 students.
2004	May 2016	St. Therese Little Flower Indian Mission	Onamia	MN	3/3
2004	May 2016	Sacred Heart	Wahkon	MN	3/3	Sacred Heart had a religious education program with 31-46 students. Poser was suspended from ministry in May 2016 after the diocese received a report that he had sexually abused a minor in the 1970s, while assigned to St. Odilia's in Shoreview MN.

Priests in a Parish: We use the following convention to show a priest's place among the clergy of a parish: 1/2 means that he is the first priest listed in the Official Catholic Directory (usually the pastor) and that there is a total of two priests at the parish. The shorthand 3/4 means that the priest is listed third on a four-priest roster. See our sample page from the Directory.

Source: Official Catholic Directory (Kenedy & Sons, 1976-2014).

• Crosier priest removed from ministry, By David Unze, St. Cloud Times, May 10, 2016

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This assignment record was last updated on May 15, 2016.