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Woodford Street, Portland, Maine
Ground breaking June 18, 1961. Cornerstone laid September 3, 1961.
St. Ansgar Danish Lutheran Church 1875-1954
Immanuel (Swedish) Lutheran Church 1894-1954
Churches merged: November 8, 1954 and became St. Ansgar Evangelical Lutheran Church
Pictures taken July 2008
St. Ansgar ministers:
- 1875-1878 - Lars Moller Christensen Gydesen (born June 11, 1828,
Barrit, Vejle, Denmark, went to Omaha, Nebraska)
- 1878-1879 - Andeas Peter Vilhelm Bekker (born September 22, 1844,
Copenhagen, Denmark, died May 1, 1917, Detroit, Michigan)
- 1888-1896 - Iver Christian Poulsen (born September 24, 1846, Hee,
Ringkobing, Denmark, went to Omaha, Nebraska)
- 1897-1900 - R. Nielsen
- 1900-1908 - Karl P. Bruckner
- 1909-1911 - R. Nielsen
- 1911-1915 - Jens Anton Marius Rodholm (born September 23, 1881,
Denmark, went to Manistee County, Michigan)
- 1916-1921 - Viggo M. Hansen (born September 20, 1890, Denmark,
died January 21, 1977, Solvang, California)
- 1922-1924 - J. Christiansen
- 1924-1930 - Henrik Knudsen Plambeck (born November 4, 1873,
Egebjerg, Holbaek, Denmark)
- 1931-1936 - F.O. Lund
- 1936-1937 - H. Wulff
- 1937-1948 - J. Pedersen
- 1948-1952 - P.C. Stockholm
- 1952-1954 - Vincent P. Ligouri
- 1894-1897 - O.A. Henry
- 1897-1900 - A. Aaron
- 1906-1908 - C. Pehrson
- 1909-1911 - O. Moren
- 1913-1923 - C.P. Edlund
- 1925-1928 - K.E. Zetterholm
- 1928-1936 - L.O. Johnson
- 1938-1941 - W.C. Lundberg
- 1942-1948 - E.R. Carlson
- 1950-1953 - H.A. Zimmerman
- 1953-1954 - Vincent P. Ligouri
St. Ansgar (merged church) ministers:
- 1954-1959 - Vincent P. Ligouri (went to First Lutheran Church, 62 Church Street, Malden, Massachusetts)
- 1959-1964 - Alfred A. Fant
- 1965-1977 - R.H. Magnuson
- 1978-1983 - J.K. Stendahl
- 1983-1986 - Frederick K. Neu
- 1987-1994 - P.D. Boehringer
- 1995-2001 - Sharon L. Hughes
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