Father Leonard Eckroth, was a priest at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Strasburg, North Dakota. His father emigrated from Karlsruhe, Ukraine in 1891 and moved to North Dakota. Father Leonard was ordained in 1958. He served 28 years at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Strasburg and St. Mary’s in Hague.

Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Strasburg, Emmons County, North Dakota, on Highway 83 is a gothic and Romanesque style church completed in 1911. It was blessed in June of the same year by Bishop Vincent Wherle, of the Diocese of Bismarck, ND during a Pontifical High Mass. It was consecrated on June 28, 1916 as the second consecrated Church in the Diocese. The Abbey Church at Richardton, ND was the first and only other consecrated Church in the Diocese of Bismarck, ND.