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Hodur, Francis

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Hodur, Francis (1866–1953)

Polish-born US religious founder. In 1897 he became pastor of a Scranton, Pennsylvania, church independently built by Polish Catholics under a largely German and Irish hierarchy; the next year he was excommunicated. Additional groups joined together to form a Polish National Catholic Church (PNCC), which he led, becoming a bishop in 1907. The PNCC adopted a Polish vernacular liturgy, among other changes; at Hodur's death there were 270,000 adherents.

Born in Zarki, he emigrated to the USA as a seminarian and was ordained in 1893.



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