Fr. Bede Parry

Order: OSB
Ordained: 1983
Status: Sued

Died: 11/27/2013
Diocese: Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph MO

A 6/2011 lawsuit alleged Parry, then a Benedictine priest and boys’ choir director at Conception Abbey in northwest MO, sexually abused a boy in 1987 at summer choir camp. Parry had been affiliated with the abbey since 1973. He admitted to the Abbot in 1981 that he had been involved in three “inappropriate relationships” 1973-1979. Dismissed in 2002. Became an Episcopal priest in Las Vegas 10/15/2004. Resigned in 2011 after the suit was filed. Admitted to abuse of several. A second suit filed 7/2011. Died 11/27/2013. Included on the Las Vegas diocese’s list 4/12/2019. (No known allegations there.) On the Conception Abbey Benedictines’ list 8/5/2019. Included on the Santa Fe archdiocese’s list 5/19/21, which notes assignments there in 1978, 1990 and 1992.

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