Monsignor Charles Kosanke on Seeing Beyond The Hardships Monsignor Charles Kosanke Monsignor Charles Kosanke’s 2016 appointment as pastor of Most Holy Trinity Parish and the Basilica of Ste. Anne de Detroit was, in many ways, a homecoming. Born and raised in northeast Detroit, Kosanke hadn’t lived or worked in his native city since attending his ministry assignments as a student at St. John’s Provincial Seminary. After his ordination in 1985, Kosanke served for 31 years in parishes across metro Detroit before his career came full circle. When the Archdiocese of Detroit named him pastor for Detroit’s two most historic churches, Kosanke found himself back where it all began. His new posts — both in Corktown, just a mile apart — sit across town from St. Raymond’s Parish, the church Kosanke attended growing up.