Gaspër Krasniqi (died 1876; in Italian: Gasparo or Gaspare Crasnich), also referred as Joshtar Krasnik, Gashpar Krasnik, or Don Karlo Krasnik, was an

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priest who served as

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of the Diocese of Skopje.Father Gaspar Crasnich
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of the St. Alexander church in

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, in today's

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. On 24 June 1839, he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Skopje.
In 1849, he functioned as intermediate between Bid Doda Pasha and Mark Prenk Lleshi, representatives of Mirdita, and the Internal Minister of the

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, regarding Mirdita's cooperation with Serbia and

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against the

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. Again, during the

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, he helped organizing the Northern Albanian Catholic tribes for an uprising against the Ottomans, with the support of French emissaries of

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. He was subsequently arrested by the Ottomans.
He died in 1876.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Krasniqi, Gasper 19th-century Albanian Roman Catholic priests Bishops of Skopje 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Ottoman Empire 1876 deaths

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