(born May 26, 1940) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, presiding as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Dubuque in Iowa from 1995 until 2013.

[8] Hanus was ordained to the priesthood in the Order of Saint Benedict by Archbishop Gerald Bergan on July 30, 1966.

[7] Hanus was elected the sixth abbot of Conception Abbey on January 5, 1977, and received the abbatial blessing the next day.

[9] On July 6, 1987, Pope John Paul II appointed Jerome as the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Saint Cloud.

[11] On February 1, 2006, Hanus announced a $5 million legal settlement for 26 victims of sexual abuse by priests in the 1950s and 1960s in the archdiocese.

[12] On May 12, 2008, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided the Agriprocessors meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, detaining 398 employees who were overwhelmingly of Latino descent.

On April 8, 2013, Hanus announced that Francis had appointed Bishop Michael Jackels of the Diocese of Wichita to succeed him.

[17] Hanus acted as apostolic administrator for the archdiocese until Jackels was installed on May 30, after which he resumed his life as a monk in Missouri.

The plaintiffs were two Missouri men who claimed that in the 1980s Reverend Bede Parry, a priest at the abbey, had abused them as boys.

Hanus ordered Perry to undergo psychological counseling, but allowed him to continue as the youth choir director.