IN MEMORIAM

Vatican City, 10 September 2013 (VIS) – The following prelates died in recent weeks:

- Archbishop Florentinus Sului Hajang Hau, M.S.F. of Samarinda, Indonesia on 8 July at the age of 64.

- Cardinal Simon Ignatius Pimenta, archbishop emeritus of Bombay, India, on 19 July at the age of 93.

- Bishop Jude Speyrer, emeritus of Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA, on 21 July at the age of 84.

- Bishop Bellino Giusto Ghirard, emeritus of Rodez (-Vabres), France, on 26 July at the age of 78.

- Bishop George Kinzie Fitzsimons, emeritus of Salina, Kansas, USA, on 28 July at the age of 84.

- Cardinal Ersilio Tonini, archbishop emeritus of Ravenna-Cervia, Italy, on 28 July at the age of 99.

- Archbishop Ludwig Averkamp, emeritus of Hamburg, Germany, on 29 July at the age of 86.

- Archbishop Antonio Moreno Casamitjana, emeritus of Concepción (Santísima Concepción), Chile, on 31 July at the age of 86.

- Bishop Charles-Omer Valois, emeritus of Saint-Jerome, Quebec, Canada on 4 August at the age of 89.

- Archbishop Jaime Luiz Coelho, emeritus of Maringa, Parana, Brazil on 5 August at the age of 97.

- Bishop Luís Gonzaga Ferreira da Silva, S.J., emeritus of Lichinga, Mozambique, on 7 August at the age of 90.

- Bishop Johannes Willem Maria Bluyssen (Bluijssen) emeritus of 's-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands, on 8 August at the age of 87.

- Bishop Leon Aime Taverdet, F.M.C., emeritus of Langres, France, on 8 August at the age of 90.

- Bishop Joaquim Rufino do Rego, emeritus of Parnaíba, Piaui, Brazil, on 10 August at the age of 87.

- Bishop Francis Joseph Gossman, emeritus of Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, on 12 August at the age of 83.

- Archbishop Rene Fernandez Apaza, emeritus of Cochabamba, Bolivia, on 14 August at the age of 89.

- Bishop Carlos Prada Sanmiguel, emeritus of Duitama-Sogamoso, Colombia on 16 August at the age of 73.

- Bishop Joseph Hoang Van Tiem, S.D.B., of Bùi Chu, Vietnam on 17 August at the age of 74.

- Bishop Thomas Nguyen Van Tan, of Vinh Long, Vietnam on 17 August at the age of 72.

- Bishop William Dermott Molloy McDermott, emeritus of Huancavelica, Peru, on 19 August at the age of 83.

- Bishop Filippo Strofaldi, emeritus of Ischia, Italy, on 24 August at the age of 73.

- Bishop Domenico Crusco, emeritus of San Marco Argentano-Scalea, Italy, on 25 August at the age of 79.

- Cardinal Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, archbishop emeritus of Lusaka, Zambia, on 29 August at the age of 81.

- Bishop William John Brennan, emeritus of Wagga Wagga, Australia, on 31 August at the age of 75.

- Bishop Joaquim Justino Carreira of Guarulhos, Sao Paulo, Brazil on 1 September at the age of 63.

- Bishop Jose Guadalupe Padilla Lozano, emeritus of Veracruz, Mexico on 8 September at the age of 92.