Rembert Weakland

Rembert George Samuel Weakland OSB (April 2, 1927 – August 22, 2022) was an American Benedictine monk. He was the Archbishop of Milwaukee from 1977 to 2002.^[1] He was born in Patton, Pennsylvania.

Shortly before his mandatory retirement, it was revealed that Weakland had a sexual relationship with a man that he worked with and that the diocese had paid $450,000 to the man to settle any legal issues from this.^[2] He was also controversial for destroying reports about priests being accused of child sexual abuse.^[3]

In April 2022, Weakland was reported to have been in hospice care.^[4] He died on August 22, 2022 in Greenfield, Wisconsin at the age of 95.^[5][6]