IN MEMORIAM

VATICAN CITY, 3 MAR 2011 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent weeks:

 - Bishop Hernan Alvarado Solano, apostolic vicar of Guapi, Colombia, on 31 January at the age of 65.

 - Bishop Jesus Maria Coronado Caro S.D.B., emeritus of Duitama-Sogamoso, Colombia, on 1 January at the age of 92.

 - Bishop Eduardo Davino, emeritus of Palestrina, Italy, on 20 January at the age of 81.

 - Archbishop Emanuele Gerada, apostolic nuncio, on 21 January at the age of 90.

 - Bishop Francis Anthony Gomes, emeritus of Mymensingh, Bangladesh, on 17 February at the age of 79.

 - His Beatitude Jean Pierre XVIII Kasparian, patriarch emeritus of Cilicia of the Armenians, Lebanon, on 16 January at the age of 83.

 - Archbishop Emilio Ognenovich, emeritus of Mercedes-Lujan, Argentina, on 29 January at the age of 88.

 - Bishop Gustave Olombe Atelumbu Musilamu, emeritus of Wamba, Democratic Republic of Congo, on 17 February at the age of 83.

 - Bishop Manoel Pestana Filho, emeritus of Anapolis, Brazil, on 8 January at the age of 82.

 - Bishop Reinaldo Ernst Punder of Coroata, Brazil, on 16 January at the age of 72.

 - Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia, emeritus of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico, on 24 January at the age of 86.

 - Bishop Eugenio Salessu, emeritus of Malanje, Angola, on 20 January at the age of 87.

 - Bishop Jacques Sarr of Thies, Senegal, on 18 January at the age of 76.

 - Bishop John James Ward, former auxiliary of Los Angeles, U.S.A., on 10 January at the age of 90.

 - Archbishop Jozef Miroslaw Zycinski of Lublin, Poland, on 10 February at the age of 62.
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