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Friday, September 4, 2015

In memoriam


Vatican City, 4 September 2015 (VIS) – The following prelates have died in recent weeks:

- Bishop Simon-Pierre Saint-Hillien, C.S.C., of Hinche, Haiti, on 22 July at the age of 64.

- Cardinal William Wakefield Baum, major penitentiary emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary, on 23 July at the age of 88.

- Bishop Fransiskus Xaverius Rocharjanta Prajasuta, M.S.F., emeritus of Banjarmasin, Indonesia on 28 July at the age of 83.

- Archbishop Salvatore Cassisa, emeritus of Monreale, Italy, on 3 August at the age of 93.

- Bishop Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano, emeritus of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, on 14 August at the age of 69.

- Cardinal Laszlo Pacifik Paskai, O.F.M. archbishop emeritus of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary, on 17 August at the age of 88.

- Bishop Vladimír Filo, emeritus of Roznava, Slovakia, on 18 August at the age of 75.

- Bishop Paul Lokiru Kalanda, emeritus of Fort Portal, Uganda, on 19 August at the age of 88.

- Bishop Gaetano Aldo (Thomas) Donato, auxiliary of Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A., on 25 August at the age of 74.

- Archbishop Maroun Khoury Sader, emeritus of Tyre of the Maronites, Lebanon, on 26 August at the age of 88.

- Abbot Carmelo Domenico Recchia, O. Cist. emeritus of Claraval, Minas Gerais, Brazil, on 26 August at the age of 93.

- Bishop Francisco Capiral San Diego, emeritus of Pasig, Philippines, on 26 August at the age of 79.

- Former nuncio Jozef Wesolowski, on 28 August at the age of 67.

- Bishop Carlos Maria Ariz Bolea, C.M.F., emeritus of Colon-Kuna Yala, Panama, on 29 August at the age of 86.

- Bishop Pierfranco Pastore, secretary emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communication on 30 August at the age of 88.

- Archbishop George Hamilton Pearce, S.M., emeritus of Suva, Fiji Islands, on 30 August at the age of 94.

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