Francis Durning

Francis (Frank) Durning SM was a New Zealand priest of the Roman Catholic Church. [1]

Portrait of Francis Durning

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.

Order of Service from the funeral of Francis Durning

In 2018 the Society of Mary said that Francis Durning sexually abused children.[2][3]


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