Joseph C. Plagens

Joseph Casimir Plagens (January 29, 1880 – March 31, 1943) was a Polish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

[3] Pope Pius XI appointed Plagens as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Marquette on November 16, 1935.

Plagens had ordered the transfer of Father Simon Borkowski, pastor of St. Barbara's Parish in Vulcan, Michigan, to a seminary in Wisconsin.

One day, a group of sixty men arrived at St. Barbara's, pushed past the picketers, and brought Borkowski out of the building.

[4][3] Joseph Plagens died at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Rapids on March 31, 1943, at age 63 of coronary thrombosis.