Assignment Record – Rev. Kenneth T. Walleman, s.j.

Summary of Case: Ordained a priest of the Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus in 1959, Fr. Ken Walleman taught high school in Milwaukee briefly after ordination, after which he was assigned to St. Francis Mission on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Walleman remained on the Reservation for more than 30 years. In 1997 he was transferred to the Jesuit Community at St. Camillus in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Walleman was accused in a 2003 lawsuit of having sexually abused a Native American boy at St. Francis Mission in the 1970s. He was known to still be residing in Wauwatosa in May 2014.

Ordained: 1959

1959

Kansas City Kansas archbishop was Edward Joseph Hunkeler (1951-1969).

1962

Milwaukee archbishop was William Edward Cousins (1958-1977).

1963

Rapid City bishop was William Tibertus McCarty, c.ss.r (1948-1960), followed by Harold Joseph Dimmerling (1969-1987), and Charles Joseph Chaput , o.f.m. Cap. (1988-1997).

St. Francis

• Walleman was accused in a 2003 lawsuit of the sexual abuse of a Native American boy at St. Francis in the 1970s. Walleman was said to have been sent to St. Francis after suffering a "mental breakdown" at another school.

1997

Rembert George Weakland, o.s.b. succeeded Cousins as Milwaukee archbishop (1977-2002), followed by Timothy Michael Dolan (2002-2009), and Jerome Edward Listecki (2009-).

Sources: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1960-2012)

• Sioux Allege Abuse at Church Boarding Schools, By Sharon Waxman, Pioneer Press, carried in Washington Post [South Dakota], Downloaded June 2, 2003
• St. Camillus Jesuit Community, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, jesuitpartners.org, May 6, 2014.

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This assignment record was last updated on May 6, 2014.