Bishop Johannes Nienhaus - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 27 Apr 2014 22:40:14 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Bishop Johannes Nienhaus - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Another dead Dutch bishop found to have been a child abuser https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/04/29/another-dead-dutch-bishop-found-child-abuser/ Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:07:37 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=57077 The Dutch Catholic Church has admitted that another of its dead bishops was a child abuser. A commission investigating Church sex abuse scandals in the Netherlands confirmed four complaints against Bishop Johannes Nienhaus, who died in 2000. Nienhaus was auxiliary bishop in Utrecht from 1982 to 1999. The abuse took place from the mid-1950s to Read more

Another dead Dutch bishop found to have been a child abuser... Read more]]> The Dutch Catholic Church has admitted that another of its dead bishops was a child abuser.

A commission investigating Church sex abuse scandals in the Netherlands confirmed four complaints against Bishop Johannes Nienhaus, who died in 2000.

Nienhaus was auxiliary bishop in Utrecht from 1982 to 1999.

The abuse took place from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s when he was chaplain and later rector of a junior seminary.

A few weeks ago, Roermond diocese said its late bishop Johannes Gijsen had sexually abused two boys, also decades ago.

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