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About Francis A. Marzen
- Francis A.
- Marzen (March 14, 1925 – July 19, 2004) was a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, former editor of the Hawaii Catholic Herald and an information specialist for the City & County of Honolulu in the administration of Mayor Frank Fasi.Born in East Mauch Chunk — present-day Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania — Marzen studied at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Worthington, Ohio and was ordained in the fledgling diocese in the Hawaiian Islands in 1951 alongside his classmate, Msgr.
- Bernard J.
- Eikmeier.
- Marzen was the founding pastor of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church and School in Pearl City as well as Saints Peter and Paul Church in the Kapi`olani Business District of Honolulu. Marzen was appointed a Chaplain of His Holiness with the title of Monsignor by Pope John XXIII in 1963.
- His classmate Father Eikmeier joined him in the ranks of the monsignori many years later during the episcopate of Msgr.
- Joseph Anthony Ferrario. After thirty years with the Hawaii Catholic Herald, twenty of which were spent as editor, Marzen was dismissed from his position by the newly appointed Bishop Ferrario.
- In 1986, Marzen retired from his position as pastor of Saints Peter and Paul Church.
- He was subsequently hired in 1987 by Mayor Frank Fasi as an information specialist.
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