Rev. Irving F. Klister-Assignment

Rev. Irving F. Klister ("Jack")

Ordained: 1944

Start	Stop	Assignment	Town/Accusations	State	Position	Notes
1944 Superior Bishop was William Patrick O'Connor (1941-1946), then Albert Gregory Meyer (1946-1953)	1949	Cathedral of Christ the King	Superior	WI	4/4 ,3/3, 2/4	The Cathedral had a grade school with 544-477 students and a high school with 285-321 students.
1944	1949	Our Lady of the Snow	Winndboujou	WI		Parish was a mission of the Cathedral of Christ the King.
1944	1949	St. Anthony	Lake Nebagamon	WI		Parish was a mission of the Cathedral of Christ the King.
1944	1949	Claude Allouez Academy	Superior	WI		This school was attended from the Cathedral, and had 105-82 students.
1945	1947	Secretary for the Pontifical Society for the Propogation of the Faith	Superior	WI
1945	1955	Diocesan Director for the Pontifical Society for the Propogation of the Faith	Superior	WI
1946	1954	Vice-Chancellor	Superior	WI
1954	1955	Chancellor	Superior	WI
1947	1955	Diocesan Tribunal Notary	Superior	WI
1947	1953	Director of St. Vincent de Paul Society	Superior	WI
1947	1954	Director of Catholic Boy Scouts	Superior	WI
1951	1955	Director of Diocesan Council of Catholic Women	Superior	WI
1953	1955	*Diocesan Newspaper-Catholic Herald Citizen, Superior Edition*	Superior	WI
1954	1955	Director of Diocesan Council of Catholic Men	Superior	WI
1949	1953	St. Louis (French)	Superior	WI	1/1	Parish had a school with 174-190 students.
1953 Superior bishop was Joseph John Annabring (1954-1959)	1954	St. Joseph Children's Home	Superior	WI		Klister apparently lived at the orphanage, which had 73 children.
1954	1955	Nazareth on the Lake	Superior • Admitted in 1989 to having sexually abused a 14 year old boy in WI in the mid 1950s. (Duluth News-Tribune January 22, 2006)	WI	Chaplain	This was the Motherhouse and Novitiate of the Sisters of St. Joseph.
1955 El Paso bishop was Sidney Matthew Metzger (1942-1978)	1956	Holy Family	El Paso •Alleged after his death to have molested boys in El Paso. (Duluth News-Tribune January 22, 2006)	TX	3/3	Parish had a school with 182 boys and 185 girls. Klister is noted in the Official Catholic Directories as Absent on Leave from the Superior diocese, a notation that eventually changes to On Duty Outside the Diocese, until his retirement.
1956 Bishop of Superior after Annabring was George Albert Hammes (1960-1985)	1964	St. Pius X	El Paso	TX	2/4, 2/3, 2/5	Parish had a school with 264-336 boys and 243-397 girls.
1964	1966	?	?	?		Klister is indexed but not listed in the diocesan pages of the Directories as at St. Pius X in El Paso, TX.
1966 St. Louis archbishop was Joseph Elmer Ritter (1946-1967)	1967	St. VIncent's Hospital of St. Louis	St. Louis	MO		This was a hospital for "nervous and mental diseases", located on the outskirts of St. Louis, in Normandy. It is unclear if Klister was on staff, or a patient.
1967	1968	?	?	?		Klister appears in the Directory only as Absent of Leave from the Superior diocese.
1968 Santa Fe bishop was James Peter Davis (1964-1974)	1970	Cristo Rey, Christ the King Mission-Canada de los Alamos	Santa Fe	NM	3/3, 2/2	Parish had a school with 300-288 students.
1970 Davis was replaced as bishop by Robert Fortune Sanchez (1974-1993)	1985	St. Joseph's Missions-Palo Blanco, Miami, Maxwell; Tinaja	Springer	NM	1/1	Tinaja replaced Miami as a mission of St. Joseph's in 1977.
1970	1977	New Mexico Industrial School		NM		This was a mission of St. Joseph's.
1977	1978	New Mexico Indian School		NM		This was a mission of St. Joseph's
1978	1985	New Mexico Boys School	Springer	NM		This was a mission of St. Joseph's. It was a residential educational, counseling, and treatment program.
1985 Superior bishop was Raphael Michael Fliss (1985-2007)	1992	?	? • Child pornography conviction in 1990. (Duluth News-Tribune January 22, 2006)	NM		The Superior diocesan pages in the Directories give St. Joseph's in Springer NM as Klister's address, but he's not listed there in the Santa Fe pages.
1992 Santa Fe bishop was Michael Jarboe Sheehan (1993-)	1997	?	?	NM		Klister is listed as retired in the Santa Fe diocesan pages of the Directories for 1992-1994, and with (SUP) after his name, an indication that he remains a priest of the Superior diocese. He does not appear at all in the Directories for 1994-1997. The 1998 Directory lists Klister in the Necrology section of the Santa Fe pages as having died April 19, 1997. His obituary stated he had been living in Albuquerque.

Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: Kenedy & Sons, 1945-1998).

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