Rev. John P. Fox, s.j.- Assignment Record

Assignment Record – Rev. John P. Fox, s.j.

Summary of Case: A Jesuit priest ordained in 1927, John P. Fox lived and worked for five decades in remote Alaskan villages. There is one known accusation of sexual abuse of a minor against him, as revealed in 2010 by the Fairbanks diocese's bankruptcy reorganization documents. Fox died in 1983.

Ordained: 1927
Died: May 1983

Start	Stop	Parish/Assignment	Town/Accusations	State	Position	Notes
1927 Vicariate-Apostolic of Alaska bishop was Joseph Raphael John Crimont, s.j. (1904-1945).	1928	St. Mary's	Apulurak	AK	2/2	St. Mary's had a boarding school for boys with 30 students, and an industrial training school and orphanage for 65 Eskimo girls.
1927	1928		Alaranak, Panreuvik, Naparearamute, Kasunok	AK	These were missions of St. Mary's in Apulurak.
1927	1928		Over fifty villages or halmets of Yukon Delta	AK	These were stations of St. Mary's in Apulurak.
1928	1930	Sacred Heart	Kashunak	AK	1/1 Sacred Heart had a school with 40 students.
1930 Seattle archbishop was Edward John O'Dea (1896-1932).	1931	Manresa Hall	Port Townsend	AK	Jesuit tertianship
1931 Crimont was succeeded as Vicariate-Apostolic of Alaska bishop by Walter James Fitzgerald, s.j. (1945-1947).	1946	St. Theresa of the Child Jesus (Napareyaramiut)	Hooper Bay	AK	1/1, 1/2 The 1946 Directory notes Fox to be Superior. Fox also took on the roles of postmaster, radio operator and Alaska Territoria Guard captain.	St. Theresa's had a school from 1931-1940 with 32-68 students.
1946 Fitzgerald was replaced by Francis Doyle Gleeson, s.j. (1948-1968).	1956	St. Lawrence's	Mountain Village	AK	1/1
1946	1953		Pitka's Point, Pilot Station, Chukartulik, Tukchuk, Marshal	AK		These were stations of St. Lawrence's in Mountain Village.
1953	1954		Pitka's Point, Pilot Station, Chukartulik, Marshall	AK		These were stations of St. Lawrence's in Mountain Village.
1954	1956		Pilot Station, Chukartulik, Marshall	AK		These were stations of St. Lawrence's in Mountain Village.
1956 Fairbanks was established as a diocese Aug. 8, 1962.	1963	Holy Cross Mission	Holy Cross	AK	1/1, 1/2	Holy Cross mission had a grade school with 70-84 students, and a high school beginning in 1960 with 20-15 students.
1956	1963		Pimute, Flat, Shageluk, Railroad City, Holikachuk	AK		These were stations of Holy Cross Mission.
1963	1965	St. Mary's Mission	St. Mary's	AK	2/2 Pastor and Superior was Rev. James Poole, s.j. .	St. Mary's had a school with 48 day students and 125 boarders, and a high school with 15 day students and 32 boarders. Poole is the subject of multiple allegations of sexual abuse of girls in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly at St. Mary's
1965	1968	St. Lawrence's	Mountain Village	AK	1/2, 1/1 Listed second and as at Pilot Station 1965-1966 was Rev. Robert F. Corrigal.	There is one known accusation of sexual abuse of a minor by Corrigal.
1965	1966		Fortuna Ledge (Marshall), Pilot Station, Pitkas Point, Russian Mission	AK		These were stations of St. Lawrence's in Mountain Village.
1968 Fairbanks bishop was Robert Louis Whelan, s.j. (1968-1985).	1973					The 1969-1973 Directories index Fox as at St. Lawrence's in Mountain Village, but he is not listed as there in the Fairbanks diocesan pages.
1973 Anchorage bishop was John Joseph Ryan, followed by Francis Thomas Hurley (1976-2001).	1977	Jesuit Fathers	Anchorage	AK
1977 Spokane bishop was Bernard Joseph Topel (1955-1978), followed by Lawrence Harold Welsh (1978-1990).	1978	St. Michael Ecumenical Center	Spokane	WA
1978	1983	Gonzaga University	Spokane	WA		Fox died in May 1983.

Sources: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1928-1983)

• CA Province SJ Necrology
• Assignment Record: Rev. James Poole, s.j., BishopAccountability.org
• Pilot Station - Saint Charles Spinola Catholic Church, Diocese Of Fairbanks
• Our Lady of the Snows Parish, Hooper Bay, Alaska: 1928-2003, Editors Note: This Article Is Indebted to a Considerable Extent to Writings by Father Louis L. Renner, S.J., Alaskan Shepherd, June-July 2003
• Excerpt from Bankruptcy Reorganization Documents for Fairbanks Diocese, Jan. 25, 2010, p. 2

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This assignment record was last updated on January 27, 2014