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Author: Jeff Wattrick, Managing Editor, jwattrick@wdiv.com
Cardinal Edmund Szoka, who served as Archbishop of Detroit from 1981-1990, died of natural causes Wednesday night in a Novi hospital. He was 86.
“We mourn the loss of a dedicated shepherd,” said current Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron, who had served as a priest under Cardinal Szoka in the 1980s. “For sixty years Cardinal Szoka gave himself totally to his priestly service of Christ and his Church. He has gone home to the Heavenly Father with our prayers. May the Lord give him the reward of his labors.”
Edmund Casimir Szoka was born Sept. 14, 1927, in Grand Rapids to Polish immigrants Casimir and Mary Szoka. His father had immigrated from what is now Belarus. His mother from Poland.
Szoka was ordained on June 5, 1954 and began his priestly service with the Diocese of Marquette.
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