Early life and education Frank Dewane was born on March 9, 1950, in
Green Bay,
Wisconsin. He is the third of the four children of Ben and Eleanor Dewane, who owned and operated a
dairy farm. Frank Dewane attended
Denmark High School in Denmark, Wisconsin, where he played
lineman on the
football team. During his summer vacations, he worked at an appliance factory to pay for
college. Dewane studied at the
University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, from 1968 to 1972, obtaining a bachelor's degree. He then attended
American University in Washington, D.C., from 1973 to 1975, earning a Master of International Administration degree. After his graduation 1975 from American University, Dewane worked for the
National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in Moscow in what was then the
Soviet Union. He later worked for a subsidiary of
PepsiCo in New York City. Dewane studied
philosophy at the
University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, from 1983 to 1984, then traveled to Rome in 1984 to attend the
Pontifical North American College. He studied theology at the
Pontifical Gregorian University and canon law at the
Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, both in Rome. Dewane in April 2019 ordered Reverend Christopher Senk, the former pastor of St. Isabel Parish in
Sanibel, Florida, to spend a year in penance and prayer. After a two year investigation, the
Congregation for Clergy in Rome had determined that Senk had improperly accepted thousands of dollars in gifts from Marion McIntyre. Her family claimed that McIntyre suffered from dementia during that period. Senk was suspended from ministry when the investigation began. ==See also==