# Clarence Vavra *Priest named in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis's published list of clergy with substantiated claims of abuse of a minor* Clarence Vavra, styled Rev. Clarence Vavra, is listed as associate pastor at [[Guardian Angels]] in [[Hastings]], in Dakota County, Minnesota. The [[Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis]] publishes a standing list of individuals against whom, by its own account, there is a substantiated claim of abusing a minor. Vavra's name is on that list.[^1] The list is the archdiocese's own publication, and the standard it applies to decide what counts as a substantiated claim is also the archdiocese's own.[^1] The record in this pack does not give the dates of Vavra's service, the content of the claim, or the date he was added to the list. It contains no court filing, criminal charge or civil judgment naming him, so the record does not establish that any claim against him was tested outside the archdiocese. ## Who - Rev. Clarence Vavra is identified as associate pastor at Guardian Angels in Hastings.[^1] - He is one of the individuals named on the archdiocese's clergy-disclosure list of persons against whom it states there is a substantiated claim of abusing a minor.[^1] ## Where - The project's Dakota County file groups him with the listed clergy assigned to Dakota County, through his assignment at Guardian Angels in Hastings.[^1] ## How many - The project's Dakota County file, dated 2 September 2026, records the archdiocese's list as carrying 72 names. The count may change as the archdiocese updates the list.[^1] ## In the at-issue record The project's Dakota County file, dated 2 September 2026, records Vavra in one at-issue entry. That entry names the archdiocese's list as its source and classes it as an institutional self-publication. The file treats the list as the most reliable document it holds on the matter, on the ground that the list is the institution's own.[^1] ## Notes [^1]: Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, *Clergy disclosures* (undated; as recorded in the project's Dakota County file of 2 September 2026) — the archdiocese's self-published list of clergy against whom it states there is a substantiated claim of abuse of a minor, recorded at 72 names, including Rev. Clarence Vavra, associate pastor at Guardian Angels in Hastings. https://www.archspm.org/clergy-disclosures/