Francis Joseph “Casimir” Plakut
Order: Order of Saint Benedict (Benedictines)
Ordained: 1938
DOB: 12/03/1910 (Deceased 1988)
Father Plakut served as a priest in the Diocese of Saint Cloud, the Diocese of Crookston, the Diocese of Duluth, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis (St. Batholomew Church, Wayzata, MN.), the Archdiocese of Nassau, Bahamas, and as a Chaplain at Harvard University and in the United States Army. Plakut left St. John’s Abbey in in 1962. He worked in assignments in Nebraska and Texas under the name Fr. Francis J. Michael. In September 2017 Plakut’s name was added to both the St. John’s Abbey and Diocese of Crookston disclosure lists as “likely to have offended against minors.”
http://www.saintjohnsabbey.org/info/safe-environment/
Plakut Assignment History:
- Outside of Archdiocese, 1938 – 1948
- St. Bartholomew, Wayzata, MN, 1948
- Outside of Archdiocese, 1948 – 1988
Disclosure page: http://www.saintjohnsabbey.org/info/safe-environment/
(under dropdown titled, “Names of Current and Former Monks Likely to Have Offended Against Minors)
Date the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis posted this individual’s name on its disclosures list: September 17, 2024
