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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

In memoriam


Vatican City, 16 December 2015 (VIS) – The following prelates have died in recent weeks:

- Archbishop Peter Alfred Sutton, O.M.I., emeritus of Keewatin-Le Pas, Manitoba, Canada, on 5 September at the age of 80.

- Archbishop Bruno Tommasi, emeritus of Lucca, Italy on 17 September at the age of 85.

- Archbishop Georg Eder, emeritus of Salzburg, Austria on 19 September at the age of 87.

- Bishop Giovanni De Vivo of Pescia, Italy on 20 September at the age of 75.
- Bishop Raphael Michael Fliss, emeritus of Superior, Wisconsin, USA, on 21 September at the age of 84.

- Bishop Carlos Anibal Altamirano Arguello of Azogues, Ecuador on 25 September at the age of 73.

- Bishop Claudio Baggini, emeritus of Vigevano, Italy on 25 September at the age of 79.

- Bishop Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca, auxiliary emeritus of Bombay, India on 2 October at the age of 89.

- Bishop Salvador Trane Modesto, auxiliary emeritus of San Carlos, Philippines on 11 October at the age of 85.

- Archbishop Ignazio Cannavo, emeritus of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy on 18 October at the age of 93.

- Archbishop Alessandro Plotti, emeritus of Pisa, Italy on 19 October at the age of 83.

- Bishop Gilberto Jimenez Narvaez, auxiliary emeritus of Medellin, Colombia, on 20 October at the age of 78.

- Cardinal Jan Chryzostom Korec, S.J, bishop emeritus of Nitra, Slovakia on 24 October at the age of 91.

- Bishop Gaston Poulain, P.S.S., emeritus of Perigueux (-Sarlat), France on 24 October at the age of 88.

- Bishop Georg Muller, SS.CC, prelate emeritus of Trondheim, Norway on 25 October at the age of 64.

- Bishop Giuseppe Nazzaro, O.F.M, apostolic vicar emeritus of Aleppo, Syria on 26 October at the age of 77.

- Bishop Joseph Dergham, emeritus of Cairo (Maronites), Egypt on 28 October at the age of 85.

- Bishop Jorge Scarso, O.F.M. Cap, emeritus of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil on 28 October at the age of 99.

- Archbishop Johannes Maria Trilaksyanta Pujasumarta of Semarang, Indonesia on 10 November at the age of 65.

- Bishop Jose Benedito Simao of Assis, Sao Paulo, Brazil on 27 November at the age of 64.

- Bishop Federico Ocampo Escaler, S.J, prelate emeritus of Ipil, Philippines on 28 November at the age of 93.

- Bishop Antonio Troyo Calderon, auxiliary emeritus of San Jose de Costa Rica, Costa Rica on 1 December at the age of 92.

- Archbishop Ricardo Guizar Diaz, emeritus of Tlalnepantla, Mexico on 4 December at the age of 82.

- Archbishop emeritus Luigi Conti, formerly apostolic nuncio in Malta on 5 December at the age of 86.

- Archbishop Rrok Kola Mirdita of Tirana, Albania on 7 December at the age of 76.

- Bishop Anthony Francis Sharma, S.J., apostolic vicar emeritus of Nepal, on 8 December at the age of 77.

-Cardinal Carlo Furno, Grand Master emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem on 9 December at the age of 94.

- Bishop Matthew Shija, emeritus of Kahama, Tanzania on 9 December at the age of 91.

- Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval, C.SS.R., archbishop emeritus of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia on 9 December at the age of 79.

- Bishop Dermot Patrick O’Mahony, auxiliary emeritus of Dublin, Ireland on 10 December at the age of 80.

- Bishop Jiri Paďour, O.F.M. Cap, emeritus of Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic on 11 December at the age of 72.


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