Rembert Weakland
Rembert George Samuel Weakland (April 2, 1927 – August 22, 2022) was an American Catholic bishop and Benedictine monk who served as Archbishop of Milwaukee from 1977 to 2002. Shortly before his retirement, it was revealed that Weakland had a sexual relationship with a seminarian several decades before and that the diocese had paid $450,000 to the man to settle litigation. Biography Early life George Weakland was born on April 2, 1927, in Patton, Pennsylvania, to Basil Weakland (1897–1932) and Mary Kane (1898–1978). He had four sisters: Leora, Elizabeth, Barbara, and Marian; and a brother William. Weakland attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Patton, Illinois, and then enrolled at the minor seminary run by the Benedictine monks of Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. In 1945, Weakland entered the novitiate of the archabbey, taking the religious name of Rembert. On September 23, 1946, he went on to study at Saint Vincent College and Saint Vincent Seminary, also run by the archabbey. He made his solemn profession as a monk on September 29, 1949, at Solesmes Abbey in France. Weakland was then sent by the archabbot to study theology at the Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm in Rome. Priesthood