Fr. Jacques (Nijssen) Nyssen

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Order: SVD
Ordained: 1959
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of Chicago IL

Named publicly as credibly accused by the Divine Word Missionaries’ Chicago Province on its list 4/18/2021. Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General’s Report, which notes at least two “reported survivors,” of abuse in Ghana in the 1960s and in 1980s in the Caribbean. Worked also in the Netherlands, Washington DC, St. Kitts, FL, IL NJ. Died in 2015.


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