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Karol Langner

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Karol Langner (June 28, 1843 in Deutsch Piekar in Oberschlesien (today Piekary Śląskie) – January 1912 in Negaunee, Michigan) was a Polish priest and schoolmate of Jan Pitass. Starting as a priest in Marquette, 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.[1][2]

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 domestic prelate by Pope Leo XIII in 1900, the same year he became vicar general in the Marquette Diocese.

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  1. ^ Kruszka, Wacław; Pienkos, Donald E.; Radzialowski, Thaddeus Casmir; Renkiewicz, Frank (1993). A History of the Poles in America to 1908. Catholic University of America Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-8132-0772-8.
  2. ^ Kruszka, Wacław (1998). A History of the Poles in America to 1908: Poles in the Eastern and Southern States. Catholic University of America Press. pp. 71–77. ISBN 978-0-8132-0772-8.