IN MEMORIAM

VATICAN CITY, 4 MAR 2008 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent weeks:

 - Bishop Nicola Agnozzi O.F.M. Conv., emeritus of Ariano Irpino-Lacedonia, Italy, on 17 February at the age of 96.

- Archbishop Emilio Benavent Escuin, military ordinary emeritus of Spain, on 4 January at the age of 93.

- Bishop Paul Michael Boyle C.P., emeritus of Mandeville, Jamaica, on 10 January at the age of 81.

- Bishop Paul-Louis Carriere, emeritus of Laval, France, on 20 February at the age of 99.

- Bishop Ramon Daumal Serra, former auxiliary of Barcelona, Spain, on 10 February at the age of 95.

- Archbishop Vincenzo Maria Farano, emeritus of Gaeta, Italy, on 17 January at the age of 86.

- Bishop Jose Higinio Gomez Gonzalez O.F.M., emeritus of Lugo, Spain, on 8 January at the age of 75.

- Bishop Daniel Anthony Hart, emeritus of Norwich, U.S.A., on 14 January at the age of 80.

- Bishop Sebastian Krauter, emeritus of Timisoara, Romania, on 29 January at the age of 85.

- Bishop Paulino Fernandes Madeca, emeritus of Cabinda, Angola, on 9 January at the age of 80.

- Bishop Darius Nggawa S.V.D., emeritus of Larantuka, Indonesia, on 8 January at the age of 78.

- Archbishop Marijan Oblak, emeritus of Zadar, Croatia, on 15 February at the age of 88.

- Bishop Candido Padin O.S.B., emeritus of Bauru, Brazil, on 25 January at the age of 92.

- Archbishop Franc Perko, emeritus of Beograd, Serbia, on 20 February at the age of 78.

- Archbishop Oskar Saier, emeritus of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, on 3 January at the age of 75.

- Bishop Vittorio Tomassetti, emeritus of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola, Italy, on 6 January at the age of 77.

- Archbishop Elias Zoghbi, emeritus of Baalbek of the Greek Melkites, Lebanon, on 17 January at the age of 95.
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