IN MEMORIAM

VATICAN CITY, 27 MAR 2008 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent weeks:

 - Cardinal Peter Porekuu Dery, archbishop emeritus of Tamale, Ghana, on 6 March at the age of 89.

 - Bishop Romeu Brigenti, former auxiliary of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 10 March at the age of 91.

 - Bishop Kevin John Dunn of Hexham and Newcastle, England, on 1 March at the age of 57.

 - Bishop Urbanus Joseph Kioko, emeritus of Machakos, Kenya, on 2 March at the age of 79.

 - Bishop Pierre Mamie, emeritus of Lausanne, Geneve and Fribourg, Switzerland, on 14 March at the age of 88.

 - Archbishop Gastone Mojaisky-Perrelli, emeritus of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Conza-Nusco-Bisaccia, Italy, on 5 March at the age of 93.

 - Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mossul of the Chaldeans, Iraq, on 12 March at the age of 65.

 - Bishop Denys Tapsoba M. Afr., emeritus of Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso, on 13 March at the age of 91.
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