Francis Hoefgen

Francis Hoefgen

Date of birth: 8/1/1950

Date of ordination: 1979

Hoefgen’s assignment history:

  • St. Boniface, Cold Spring, 1980-1984
  • Associate priest, St. Boniface, Hastings (which merged with another parish to form St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in 1987), 1985-1992
  • Confessor, Villa Maria Center, Frontenac, 1985-1994

Diocese or religious order: Order of St. Benedict, St. John’s Abbey

Date permanently removed from ministry: 2002

Current status: Left order and laicized in 2011

Date the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis posted this individual’s name on a list of those with claims of substantiated abuse against them: December 5, 2013