Fr. Phillip Hobt

Ordained: 1992
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Des Moines IA

Placed on leave in 2/2007 after an allegation that he sexually abused a former student at St. Albert School. Law enforcement officials were notified. Hobt began working at the school in 1995. In 4/2007, the Diocese reported that the allegations were credible and that Hobt had begun the process to voluntarily ask the Vatican to be laicized. Laicized in 2007. On the Diocese’s list 4/4/2019.


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