St. Ansgar is a city in Mitchell County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,160 at the 2020 census. St. Ansgar is named for the patron sai…St. Ansgar is a city in Mitchell County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,160 at the 2020 census. St. Ansgar is named for the patron saint of Scandinavia, a French Benedictine monk who Christianized much of Denmark, Sweden, and northern Germany between 830 and 865 A.D. The town is the site of First Lutheran Church of St. Ansgar, a pioneer Norwegian Lutheran Church founded in December 1853 by Claus Lauritz Clausen, who was commissioned by the Lutheran Church of Norway to form congregations for Norwegian immigrants in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota.
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