IN MEMORIAM

VATICAN CITY, 3 MAR 2009 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent weeks:

 - Cardinal Stephanos II Ghattas, C.M., patriarch emeritus of Alexandria of the Copts, Egypt, on 20 January at the age of 89.

 - Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, archbishop emeritus of Seoul, Korea, on 16 February at the age of 86.

 - Cardinal Pio Laghi, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education and patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, on 11 January at the age of 86.

 - Cardinal Paul Joseph Pham Dinh Tung, archbishop emeritus of Hanoi, Vietnam, on 22 February at the age of 89.

 - Bishop Cipriano Calderon Polo, vice-president emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, on 4 February at the age of 81.

 - Archbishop Jean Jadot, former pro-president of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, on 21 January at the age of 99.

 - Bishop Philippe Kourouma, emeritus of N'Zerekore, Guinea, on 11 February at the age of 76.

 - Bishop Hugh Lindsay, emeritus of Hexham and Newcastle, England, on 19 January at the age of 81.

 - Bishop Edward Joseph O'Donnell, emeritus of Lafayette, U.S.A., on 1 February at the age of 77.

 - Bishop Jose de Almeida Batista Pereira, emeritus of Guaxupe, Brazil, on 31 January at the age of 91.

 - Bishop Jean Remond, former auxiliary of the "Mission de France", on 21 February at the age of 86.

 - Bishop Antonio dos Reis Rodrigues, former auxiliary of Lisbon, Portugal, on 3 February at the age of 90.

 - Bishop Michael Russell, emeritus of Waterford and Lismore, Ireland, on 12 January at the age of 88.

 - Bishop Zef Simoni, former auxiliary of Shkodre, Albania, on 21 February at the age of 80.

 - Bishop Louis Simonneaux, emeritus of Versailles, France, on 22 January at the age of 93.

 - Bishop Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe, emeritus of Dallas, U.S.A., on 24 January at the age of 93.

 - Bishop Andrew Tsien Chih-ch'un, emeritus of Hwalien, Taiwan, on 17 February at the age of 82.

 - Bishop Serafin Vasquez Elizalde, emeritus of Ciudad Guzman, Mexico, on 10 February at the age of 86.

 - Bishop Thomas Jerome Welsh, emeritus of Allentown, U.S.A., on 19 February at the age of 87.
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