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Francis (Frank) Durning SM was a New Zealand priest of the Roman Catholic Church. [1]
Durning was born in Glasgow on 12 May 1914, and his family emigrated to New Zealand. He was ordained as a priest with the Society of Mary (Marist) on 11 December 1938. [1]
Durning taught in Catholic institutions from the 1940s through to the late 1980s, among others at:
Durning died on 13 April 1999.
In 2018 the Society of Mary said that Francis Durning sexually abused children. [2] [3]
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