Background
Hodur was born on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1866, to January and Maria Hodur in the village of Zarki, 35 miles from Krakow, Poland.
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Franciszek Hodur
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He enrolled as a seminarian in Krakow and studied at Jagiellonian University.
Career
He left Europe in December 1892 for the United States of America, where he hoped to serve Polish immigrants. Hodur made his way to the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and was sent to the seminary at Saint Vincent"s Benedictine Archabbey in Latrobe. When issues of contention arose between Polish Catholic immigrants in Scranton, Nanticoke, Wilkes-Barre, Plymouth, Duryea, and Dickson City, and their Irish-American bishop, Hodur traveled to Rome in January 1898 to seek redress from the Holy See but was unsuccessful.
Hodur was consecrated a bishop on September 29, 1907, by Gerardus Gul, the Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht, the Netherlands, assisted by Bishop January Van Thiel of Haarlem and Bishop Peter Spitz of Deventer.
He died in Scranton. He was succeeded as Prime Bishop by Leon Grochowski.
