IN MEMORIAM

VATICAN CITY, 3 SEP 2010 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent weeks:

 - Bishop Andraos Abouna, auxiliary of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Iraq, on 27 July at the age of 67.

 - Bishop Evaristus Thatho Bitsoane of Qacha's Nek, Lesotho, on 17 July at the age of 71.

 - Archbishop Arsenio Raul Casado, emeritus of Tucuman, Argentina, on 20 July at the age of 80.

 - Bishop Joseph Robert Rodericks S.J., emeritus of Jamshedpur, India, on 14 July at the age of 83.

 - Bishop Domingos Gabriel Wisniewski C.M., emeritus of Apucarana, Brazil, on 21 July at the age of 82.

 - Bishop Alberto Ablondi, emeritus of Livorno, Italy, on 21 August at the age of 85.

 - Bishop Francisco Maria Aguilera Gonzalez, former auxiliary of Mexico, on 5 August at the age of 92.

 - Bishop Mervyn Alban Alexander, emeritus of Clifton, England, on 14 August at the age of 85.

 - Bishop Acacio Rodrigues Alves, emeritus of Palmares, Brazil, on 24 August at the age of 85.

 - Bishop Patrick Dougherty, emeritus of Bathurst, Australia, on 30 August at the age of 78.

 - Bishop Jacques Maurice Faivre, emeritus of Le Mans, France, on 12 August at the age of 76.

 - Bishop Louis Gaumain O.F.M. Cap., emeritus of Moundou, Chad, on 20 August at the age of 95.

 - Bishop Constantin Guirma, emeritus of Kaya, Burkina Faso, on 6 August at the age of 90.

 - Bishop Joseph Mahfouz O.L.M., emeritus of Nossa Senhora del Libano em Sao Paulo of the Maronites, Brazil, on 25 August at the age of 78.

 - Archbishop Joji Marampudi of Hyderabad, India, on 27 August at the age of 67.

 - Bishop Jaime Prieto Amaya of Cucuta, Colombia, on 25 August at the age of 69.

 - Bishop Simone Scatizzi, emeritus of Pistoia, Italy, on 27 August at the age of 79.

 - Bishop Ricardo Jose Weberberger O.S.B. of Barreiras, Brazil, on 17 August at the age of 70.
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