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11 former clergy accused of sexual abuse by Wyoming diocese

Cheyenne, Wyo. • Roman Catholic officials in Wyoming for the first time have published a list of former clergy they say have had substantiated claims of sexual abuse against them.

The Wyoming Catholic Register newsletter mailed Wednesday the names of 11 accused clergy who served in Wyoming. They include a bishop, priests and a member of a religious order.

Church officials said in 2018 that former Bishop Joseph Hart faces substantiated allegations by three men who say he abused them as boys in the late 1970s. Hart worked as a bishop and auxiliary bishop in Cheyenne from 1976 to 2001.