- Karol Langner
Karol Langner (
June 28 ,1843 ,Piekary Śląskie - January 1912,Negaunee, Michigan ) was a Polish priest and schoolmate ofJan Pitass . Starting as a priest inMarquette, Michigan in 1869, he was later assigned a pastorate in nearby Escanaba, where he stayed for twelve years and witnessed the growth of a considerable Polish community.Langner was reassigned in 1885 to a German community near
Houghton, Michigan , and in 1899 to St. Paul's Parish in Negaunee, where he remained until his death in 1912. He was distinguished with a domesticprelate byPope Leo XIII in 1900, the same year he becamevicar general in the Marquette Diocese.
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