Francis Durning
Francis Durning SM was a New Zealand priest of the Roman Catholic Church.
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 on 11 December 1938.
Durning taught in Catholic institutions from the 1940s through to the late 1980s, among others at:
Durning died on 13 April 1999.
In 2018 the Society of Mary said that Francis Durning sexually abused children.
