Pastors of St. Francis de Sales Church
Ossian, Iowa

1868   Fr. James Harding
1873   Fr. James Brady
1876   Fr. Daniel H. Murphy
1879   Fr. Patrick A.R. Tierney
1890   Fr. Michael W. McCarthy
1899   Fr. Theodore Warning
1901   Fr. C.B. Lechtenberg
1910   Msgr. Michael J. Thiltgen
1956   Msgr. Vernon J. Peters
1978   Msgr. Kenneth Ryan
1980   Fr. Phillip McDermott
1988   Fr. Marvin Salz
1990   Fr. Richard Kuhn
1999   Msgr. Cletus J. Hawes
2015   Fr. G. Robert Gross


Original frame church dedicated in 1869
Gothic style brick church dedicated August 26, 1896, by Archbishop John J. Hennessy
Present church dedicated March 28, 1998, by Archbishop Jerome Hanus, O.S.B.
Rectory razed summer/fall of 2016 by parishioners and parking lot installed