Rembert George Samuel Weakland OSB (April 2, 1927 – August 22, 2022) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Milwaukee from 1977 to 2002.

In 2017, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee removed Weakland's name from an archdiocesan facility due to his poor response to the clergy sex abuse crisis and for his long-term romantic relationship with a man.

[2] On June 24, 1951, Weakland was ordained to the priesthood for the Benedictine order by Bishop Simone Salvi at Subiaco Abbey near Rome.

While researching at the British Library in London, Weakland discovered the text of a medieval liturgical drama, the Play of Daniel.

He soon succeeded to the office and received the solemn blessing of an archabbot from Bishop William G. Connare of the Diocese of Greensburg, on August 29, 1963.

Amidst abortion controversies, Weakland participated in public "listening sessions", encouraging Catholic women to share their views on the issue.

[9][10][11][12] The archdiocese had paid $450,000 to Paul Marcoux, a former seminarian studying at Marquette University, to settle a "date rape" claim he made against Weakland more than two decades earlier, stemming from a long-term relationship with him.

[21][22] A public mass of Christian burial was offered by Archbishop Jerome Listecki at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist on August 30, 2022.

[23] In 1984, Weakland responded to teachers in a Catholic school who were reporting sexual abuse by local priests by stating "any libelous material found in your letter will be scrutinized carefully by our lawyers".

[25] According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a deposition released in 2009 revealed that Weakland shredded reports about sexual abuse by priests.

[26] Weakland admitted allowing priests guilty of child sex abuse to continue in ministry without warning parishioners or alerting the police.

According to an account by Richard Schuler,[29] a split emerged very quickly, with Weakland taking sharp exception to the "reactionary attitudes in liturgical thinking" that he said were present at the Consociato meeting.