Fr. John P. Finke

Order: SM
Ordained: 1937
Status: Accused

Died: 11/29/1983
Diocese: Archdiocese of Cincinnati OH

Priest of the Marianist Province of Cincinnati. Teacher, military chaplain, parish priest. Worked in Cleveland, Dayton, and Cincinnati, OH and Houma-Thibodaux, LA. Died in 1983. Named publicly as accused of child sexual abuse by the US Province Marianists on its list 6/24/2020. (The Catholic Directory and Finke’s obituary show his middle initial as P.; the Marianist’s list shows it as J.) Included on the Cincinnati archdiocese’s list in 2/2022.


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