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Featured Article: "Loeppky, Johann (1882-1950)" (Read full article) Johann Loeppky posing with his second wife, Helena Janzen. Photograph credit: Preservings Magazine, no. 26, p. 37. Johann Loeppky was the first Bishop (Ältester) of the Old Colony Mennonite Church in Canada after the emigration of almost the entirety of the church’s leadership in the 1920s. An minister since 1909, Loeppky represented the Hague-Osler settlement on several land-seeking delegations from 1919-1921, which paved the way for the movement of around 8000 conservative Mennonites from Canada to Mexico and Paraguay. Loeppky himself, however, remained in Canada and was significantly responsible for the continuity and successful reorganization of the Old Colony Church there. From 1948-1950, he led a small portion of his church in another migration to Mexico. Loeppky was born in Blumenhof, in Manitoba’s West Reserve in January 1882. He moved to Saskatchewan around 1900, settling just north of the town of Osler. He married Anna Neudorf in 1903. When she died in 1909, he married Helena Janzen. In the same year, he was elected as a minister. He became the bishop of the Old Colony Church in Canada in 1930 and continued to serve in that capacity until his death in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1950. In his lifetime, he preached 2103 sermons, baptized 797 people, and officiated at 198 weddings and 549 funerals.

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