IN MEMORIAM

VATICAN CITY, FEB 23, 1999 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent weeks:

- Bishop Benjamin Barrera y Reyes S.S.I., emeritus of Santa Ana, El Salvador, on February 4, aged 96.
- Archbishop Bartolome Carrasco Briseno, emeritus of Antequera, Mexico, on January 7, aged 80.
- Bishop Patrick Joseph Casey, emeritus of Brentwood, Great Britain, on January 26, aged 85.
- Bishop Carlo Cavalla, emeritus of Casale Monferrato, Italy, on January 4, aged 79.
- Bishop Jan Czerniak, former auxiliary of Gniezno, Poland, on February 3, aged 92.
- Bishop George E. Dion, O.M.I., former apostolic vicar of Jolo, the Philippines, on February 12, aged 87.
- Bishop Andre Duirat, S.M.A., emeritus of Bouake, Ivory Coast, on December 29, aged 90.
- Bishop Settimio Arturo Ferrazzetta O.F.M., of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, on January 26, aged 74.
- Bishop Jules Harle, former auxiliary of Arras, on January 24, aged 82.
- Archbishop Youhannan Semaan Issayi of Teheran of the Chaldeans, on February 7, aged 84.
- Bishop Joseph Kureethara of Cochin, India, on January 6, aged 69.
- Bishop Daniel Enrique Nunez Nunez of David, Panama, on January 11, aged 71.
- Bishop Fernando Prego Casal of Santa Clara, Cuba, on January 9, aged 71.
- Archbishop Nicola Rotunno, bishop emeritus of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto, Italy, on February 8, aged 70.
- Bishop Lawrence Harold Welsh, former auxiliary of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, on January 13, aged 63.

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