IN MEMORIAM

Vatican City, 19 July 2013 (VIS) – The following prelates died in recent weeks:

- Bishop Joseph Vernon Fougère, emeritus of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on 18 June at the age of 70.

- Bishop Franz Xaver Eder, emeritus of Passau, Germany, on 20 June at the age of 87.

- Bishop Jesús Humberto Velázquez Garay, emeritus of Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, on 22 June at the age of 73.

- Bishop Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen, emeritus of Reykjavik, Iceland, on 24 June at the age of 80.

- Bishop João Alves, emeritus of Coimbra, Portugal, on 28 June at the age of 87.

- Bishop Anthony Gerard Bosco, emeritus of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA, on 2 July at the age of 85.

- Bishop Vincenzo Cozzi, emeritus of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa, Italy, on 3 July at the age of 86.

- Bishop Innocent Hilarion Lotocky, O.S.B.M., emeritus of Saint Nicholas of Chicago (Ukrainian), Illinois, USA, on 4 July at the age of 97.

- Bishop Francois Xavier Nguyen Quang Sach, emeritus of Da Nang, Viet Nam, 7 July at the age of 88.

- Bishop Joaquín Piña Batllevell, S.J., emeritus of Puerto Iguazu, Argentina, on 8 July at the age of 83.

- Bishop Guido Breña López, O.P., emeritus of Ica, Peru, on 9 July at the age of 82.

- Bishop Thaddeus Joseph Jakubowski, auxiliary emeritus of Chicago, Illinois, USA on 14 July at the age of 89.

- Bishop Adhemar Esquivel Kohenque, emeritus of Tarija, Bolivia on 17 July at the age of 84.