Father John Krispinsky (1895-1991) was the son of Slovak immigrants who came to America in the late 19th century. Father Krispinsky served as the second pastor of Our Lady of Mercy, ministering to the parish from 1927 until 1964. In addition to his parish duties, Father Krispinsky was active in Slovak national causes. He was a founding member of the Slovak Forum, an organization of Slovak-American professionals in Cleveland which, in the early 1930s, advocated for an investigation into whether the government of Czechoslovakia had met the conditions of the Pittsburgh Pact to ensure that Slovaks had an equal voice in the Czechoslovak government. When Father Krispinsky died in 1991, he was the oldest priest in the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. | Source: Slovak Institute of ClevelandDownload Original File
