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NAME: PLAGENS, Joseph Casimir

BORN: January 29, 1880; Czeszewo (Poznań), Poland
           (Detroit: St. Casimir)
           Andrew Joseph Plagens, Constance Grygier

EDUCATION: U. of Detroit, Detroit (M.A., 1899)
                     St. Mary's Sem., Baltimore
                     (S.T.B., 1903; S.T.D., 1923)




ORDINATION:

July 5, 1903; Ss. Peter & Paul Cathedral, Detroit;

  Bp. John S. Foley
   
CONSECRATION: September 30, 1924
 

Sweetest Heart of Mary Church, Detroit

  Bp. Michael J. Gallagher (Detroit, MI)
Bp. Peter P. Rhode (Green Bay, WI)
Bp. Edward F. Hoban (Auxiliary of Chicago, IL)
 
DIED: March 31, 1943 (Wed.); 11:38am
St. Mary's Hospital, GR, MI (heart ailment)
 
BURIAL: Mount Calvary Cem., GR, MI
  Resurrection Cem., Wyoming, MI (reinterment)
 
 
July 20, 1903

Asst., Sweetest Heart (Sacred Heart of Mary), Detroit, MI

Sept. 13, 1906
Pastor, St. Michael, Port Austin
Dec. 20, 1911
Pastor, St. Florian, Hamtramck
1919
Pastor, Sweetest Heart of Mary, Detroit, MI
June 1, 1923
Dometic Prelate
May 22, 1924
Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar General of Detroit
Titular Bishop of Rhodiopolis
Nov. 16, 1935

Appointed Bishop of Marquette, MI

Jan. 29, 1936
Installed as Bishop of Marquette, MI
Dec. 16, 1940
Bishop of Grand Rapids, MI
Feb. 18, 1941
Installed as Bishop of Grand Rapids, MI
 

 

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