IN MEMORIAM

VATICAN CITY, 23 MAR 2010 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent weeks:

 - Cardinal Armand Gaetan Razafindratandra, archbishop emeritus of Antananarivo, Madagascar, on 9 January at the age of 84.

 - Bishop Christopher Shaman Abba of Yola, Nigeria, on 10 January at the age of 74.

 - Bishop Roger-Emile Aubry C.SS.R., former apostolic vicar of Reyes, Bolivia, on 17 February at the age of 86.

 - Bishop Juan Angel Belda Dardina, emeritus of Leon, Spain, on 22 February at the age of 83.

 - Archbishop Lawrence Aloysius Burke S.J., emeritus of Kingston in Jamaica, on 24 January at the age of 77.

 - Bishop Jose Eugenio Correa, emeritus of Caratinga, Brazil, on 28 January at the age of 95.

 - Bishop Alfredo Mario Esposito Castro C.M.F., emeritus of Zarate-Campana, Argentina, on 1 January at the age of 82.

 - Bishop Ignatius O. Lobo, emeritus of Belgaum, India, on 17 February at the age of 90.

 - Bishop John Bernard McDowell, former auxiliary of Pittsburgh, U.S.A., on 25 February at the age of 88.

 - Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January at the age of 63.

 - Bishop John Francis Moore S.M.A. of Bauchi, Nigeria, on 20 January at the age of 68.

 - Bishop Rafael Munoz Nunez, emeritus of Aguascalientes, Mexico, on 19 February at the age of 85.

 - Bishop Donald Edmond Pelotte S.S.S., emeritus of Gallup, U.S.A., on 7 January at the age of 64.

 - Archbishop Ivan Prendja of Zadar, Croatia, on 25 January at the age of 70.

 - Bishop Joseph Ignace Randrianasolo, emeritus of Mahjanga, Madagascar, on 4 February at the age of 62.

 - Bishop Josephus Tethool M.S.C., former auxiliary of Amboina, Indonesia on 18 January at the age of 75.

 - Archbishop Paul Verdzekov, emeritus of Bamenda, Cameroon, on 26 January at the age of 79.

 - Bishop Antonio Vilaplana Molina, emeritus of Leon, Spain, on 14 January at the age of 83.
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