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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

In memoriam


Vatican City, 19 January 2016 (VIS) – The following prelates have died in recent weeks:

- Bishop Joseph Roduit, C.R.A, abbot-bishop emeritus of Saint-Maurice, Switzerland, on 17 December 2015 at the age of 76.

- Bishop Placidus Gervasius Nkalanga, O.S.B., emeritus of Bukoba, Tanzania, on 18 December 2015 at the age of 96.

- Bishop Joseph Leopold Imesch, emeritus of Joliet in Illinois, United States of America, on 22 December 2015 at the age of 84.

- Archbishop Grégoire Haddad, emeritus of Beirut and Jbeil of the Greek-Melkites, Lebanon, on 23 December 2015 at the age of 91.

- Bishop Youhannes Ezzat Zakaria Badir, emeritus of Luxor of the Copts, Egypt, on 27 December 2015 at the age of 66.

- Bishop Daniel Leo Ryan, emeritus of Springfield in Illinois, United States of America, on 31 December 2015 at the age of 85.

- Bishop Barnabas Rugwizangonga Halem ’Imana, emeritus of Kabale, Uganda, on 3 January 2016 at the age of 87.

- Bishop Alberto Iniesta Jimenez, auxiliary emeritus of Madrid, Spain, on 3 January 2016 at the age of 92.

- Bishop Raymond William Lessard, emeritus of Savannah, Georgia, United States of America, on 3 January 2016 at the age of 85.

- Bishop Carlos Milciades Villalba Aquino, emeritus of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones, Paraguay, on 8 January 2016 at the age of 91.

- Bishop Paul-Marie Francois Rousset, Ist. del Prado, emeritus of Saint-Etienne, France, on 9 January 2016 at the age of 94.

- Archbishop Francis Thomas Hurley, emeritus of Anchorage, Alaska, USA, on 10 January 2016 at the age of 88.

- Bishop Albert Onyembo Lomandjo, C.S.Sp., emeritus of Kindu, Democratic Republic of Congo, 11 January 2016 at the age of 84.

- Archbishop Daniel Joseph Bohan, of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, on 15 January 2016 at the age of 74.

- Archbishop Francis Bible Schulte, emeritus of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, on 17 January 2016 at the age of 89.

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