How to Pronounce Franciszek Hodur
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Apr 01, 1866 Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland Died on 16 Feb 1953 (aged 86)
American bishop
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About Franciszek Hodur
- Bishop Franciszek Hodur (1 April 1866 – 16 February 1953) was the founder and the first, and longtime, Prime Bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church. Hodur was born on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1866, to Jan and Maria Hodur in the village of Zarki, 35 miles from Kraków, Poland.
- He enrolled as a seminarian in Kraków and studied at Jagiellonian University.
- He left Europe in December 1892 for the United States of America, where he hoped to serve Polish immigrants.
- Hodur made his way to the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and was sent to the seminary at St.
- Vincent's Benedictine Archabbey in Latrobe.
- On August 19, 1893, he was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic Church by Bishop William O'Hara.
