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JOSEPH GABRIEL PINTEN

ishop Joseph G. Pinten was born in Rockland, Michigan, in 1867.  He attended St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee and studied in Rome.  He was ordained November 1, 1890 and returned to the Marquette Diocese and served as pastor of St. Peter Cathedral from 1899 to 1916.  He became a Domestic Prelate in 1912.  Monsignor Pinten headed the Holy Family Orphanage from 1916 to 1922.  He was designated Bishop of Superior, Wisconsin and was consecrated on May 3, 1922 at St. Peter Cathedral.  He was made Bishop of Grand Rapids in 1926.  Retiring on the Golden Jubilee of his priesthood, he returned to Marquette where he lived five years, dying on November 6, 1945