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MITW history - Missionaries
Year Catholic Missions
1669-1670 Father Claude Jean Allouez, 1669 Green Bay, 1670 Oconto River.
1671-1684 Fr. Claude André, Menominee River
1707 Jesuits abandoned Green Bay, WI.
1830-1835 Reverend Samuel Mazzuchelli, O. P.
1830 Reverend Frederic Rézé
1832-1834 Reverend Samuel/Simon? Senderl Redemptorist Father Another Redemptorist Father
1832-1846 Theodore van den Broek, O.S.D. (Dominican) 1832-1838 at Green Bay, 1838-1844 Little Chute; 1844-1846 Lake Poygan.
1846-1852 Florimond J. Bonduel 1846-1852 Lake Poygan; move to Reservation.
1853-1857 Fr. Otto Skolla O. S. F.
1857-1866 Four priests visit with interruption.
1859-1862 Rev. Anthony Maria Gachet, O. M. Capuchin
1860-1861 Menard Stern
1863 Rev. Mignault
1864-1865 Rev. A. M. Mazeaud, French (smallpox priest)
? Rev. Godhart, from Netherlands
? Rev. van den Huevel, from Netherlands
1866-1868/9 Capuchin Fathers of Calvary, Wisconsin in charge.
1866-7, 1868 Fr. Cajetan Krauthahn
1867-1868 Fr. Solanus
1868-1869 Fr. Fidelis
1870's Agents in collusion with Protestants. No resident priest after Capuchins abandoned mission; several visited it off and on.
1870-1871 Rev. Vermare of Oconto City
1872 Rev. Drerus or Daems?
1873 Rev. Bayerle of Duck Creek
1873-1874 Fr. J. Chebul (also a few days in 1872)
1874 Rev. Bayerle (Also served by Rev. Chr. Verwyst from Lake Superior Missions)
1875-1880 Fr. Amandus Masschelein, a Franco Belgian
1880 Franciscan Brothers of St. Louis take over
1881 Sisters of St. Joseph take charge of schools
1880 Fr. Arnold Wilnus
1880-1882 Fr. Servatius Altmicks (Praeses)
1880-1885 Fr. Zephyrin Englehardt (Praeses: 1882-1885)
1881-1883 Fr. Marianus Glahu
1882-1914/5 Fr. Blaze Krake (Praeses: 1897-1914 or 1915
1883 Fr. Justinian [?] (Kinepoway and Oconto)
1883-1885 Fr. Hugo Fessler (Praeses: 1885)
1885-1887 Fr. Norbert Wilhelm
1885-1897 Fr. Oderic Derenthal (Praeses)
1887-1888 Fr. Pius Niermann
1897-1914+ Rev. Simon Schwartz
1907-1942 Fr. Englehard Troeskin (Praeses: 1914/5-1942)
19??-1950 Fr. Virgil, Neopit
1942-1950 Fr. Benno Tushaus, OFM (Praeses)
1951-1953 Fr. Bede Middendorf
1951-1952 Fr. Lucien Trosy [sp?], OFM (Praeses)
1952-1955 Fr. Landelin Belker, OFM (Praeses)
1955 Fr. Hildebart
1956 Oscar Rascher, Neopit
1955-1960+ Fr. Floribert Veverka, OFM
1968 Fr. Alexis Preumer, OFM
1976 Cyril J. Wagner
1980 Transferred to Diocesan priests
1980 Joseph Benedict Hagen, OFM
 
Year Episcopal Mission
1830-1834 Rev. Fish Cadle, Episcopal mission to Menominee in Green Bay
1834-1838 Rev. Daniel
1838 This Episcopal mission in Green Bay closed.
 
Year Lutheran Mission
1903 Robert Kreutzman attempts to found Lutheran mission in Zoar. Abandoned by 1914
 
Year Lutheran Church Neopit
1908-1913? Largely for non-Indian mill workers
 
Last Updated: Fri March 23, 2007