Francis Durning
Francis (Frank) 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 (Marist) on 11 December 1938.

Durning taught in Catholic institutions from the 1940s through to the late 1980s, among others at:
* St Bede's College, Christchurch 
* Chanel College, Moamoa, in Samoa
* St Patrick's College, Silverstream, where he was Rector of the school from 1950-1955
* St Patrick's College, Kilbirnie, Wellington
*Holy Cross College, Mosgiel
Durning died on 13 April 1999.

In 2018 the Society of Mary said that Francis Durning sexually abused children.
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