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Monday, January 12, 2015

In Memoriam

Vatican City, 12 January 2015 (VIS) – The following prelates died in recent months:

- Bishop Sofron Stefan Wasyl Mudry, O.S.B.M., emeritus of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, on 31 October 2014 at the age of 90.

- Bishop Alberto Johannes Först, O. Carm. emeritus of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, on 1 November 2014 at the age of 87.

- Archbishop James Mwewa Spaita, emeritus of Kasama, Zambia, on 4 November 2014 at the age of 80.

- Archbishop Juan Antonio Flores Santana, emeritus of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, on 9 November 2014 at the age of 87.

- Bishop Caetano Antonio Lima dos Santos, O.F.M. Cap., emeritus of Ilheus, Bahia, Brazil, on 11 November 2014 at the age of 98.

- Bishop Henri Marie Raoul Brincard, C.R.S.A, of Le Puy-en-Velay, France, on 14 November 2014 at the age of 74.

- Bishop Javier Azagra Labiano, emeritus of Cartagena, Spain, on 16 November 2014 at the age of 91.

- Bishop Jeremiah Joseph Coffey, emeritus of Sale, Australia, on 19 November 2014 at the age of 81.

- Bishop Leonard James Olivier, S.V.D, auxiliary emeritus of Washington, U.S.A., on 19 November 2014 at the age of 91.

- Bishop Sebelio Peralta Alvarez, of San Lorenzo, Paraguay, on 19 November 2014 at the age of 75.

-Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers (for Health Care Pastoral), on 22 November 2014 at the age of 98.

- Bishop Joseph Francis Maguire, emeritus of Springfield, U.S.A., on 23 November 2014 at the age of 95.

- Archbishop Joseph Thomas Dimino, military ordinary emeritus of the U.S.A., on 25 November 2014 at the age of 91.

- Bishop Alfredo Ernest Novak, C.SS.R. emeritus of Paranagua, Brazil, on 3 December 2014, at the age of 84.

- Bishop Patrick Edward O’Connor, emeritus of Tokelau, New Zealand, on 3 December 2014, at the age of 82.

- Cardinal Jorge Maria Mejia, archivist and librarian emeritus of the Holy Roman Church, on 9 December 2014 at the age of 91.

- Bishop Georges Lagrange, emeritus of Gap, France, on 11 December 2014 at the age of 85.

- Bishop Anthony Edward Pevec, auxiliary emeritus of Cleveland, U.S.A., on 14 December 2014 at the age of 89.

- Bishop Stephen Hector Youssef Doueihi, emeritus of St. Maron of Brooklyn (Maronites), U.S.A., on 17 December 2014 at the age of 87.

- Bishop Claude Henri Edouard Frikart, C.I.M., auxiliary emeritus of Paris, France, on 18 December 2014, at the age of 92.

- Archbishop Giuseppe Pittau, S.J. secretary emeritus of la Congregation for Catholic Education, on 26 December 2014, at the age of 86.

- Bishop Gery-Jacques-Charles Leuliet, emeritus of Amiens, France, on 1 January 2015, at the age of 104.

- Archbishop Paulinus Costa, emeritus of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 3 January 2015 at the age of 78.

- Bishop Natalino Pescarolo, emeritus of Cuneo, Italy, on 4 January 2015 at the age of 85.

- Bishop Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, auxiliary emeritus of Buffalo, U.S.A., on 5 January 2015, at the age of 102.

- Bishop Joseph Djida, O.M.I., of Ngaoundere, Cameroon, on 6 January 2015 at the age of 69.

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