IN MEMORIAM

VATICAN CITY, 5 OCT 2010 (VIS) - The following prelates died recently:

 - Bishop Victor Adibe Chikwe of Ahiara, Nigeria, on 16 September at the age of 72.

 - Bishop Armindo Lopes Coelho, emeritus of Porto, Portugal, on 29 September at the age of 79.

 - Bishop Bernard Genoud of Lausanne, Geneve et Fribourg, Switzerland, on 21 September at the age of 68.

 - Bishop Jakob Mayr, former auxiliary of Salzburg, Austria, on 19 September at the age of 86.

 - Bishop Joseph Merhi, emeritus of Le Caire of the Maronites, Egypt, on 30 March 2006 at the age of 94.

 - Bishop James Edward Michaels S.S.C.M.E., former auxiliary of Wheeling-Charleston, U.S.A., on 21 September at the age of 84.

 - Archbishop-bishop Francis Mansour Zayek, emeritus of Saint Maron of Brooklyn, U.S.A., on 22 September at the age of 89.
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