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Tuesday, March 7, 2006

IN MEMORIAM

VATICAN CITY, MAR 7, 2006 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent weeks:

 - Bishop Manuel Tavares de Araujo, emeritus of Caico, Brazil, on February 17, at the age of 93.

 - Bishop Ivan Choma, procurator in Rome to the major archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians, on February 3, at the age of 82.

 - Bishop Florencio Coronado Romani C.SS.R., emeritus of Huancavelica, Peru, on February 25, at the age of 97.

 - Bishop Alexander Soetandio Djajasiswaja of Bandung, Indonesia, on January 19, at the age of 74.

 - Bishop Roger Froment, emeritus of Tulle, France, on February 10, at the age of 77.

 - Archbishop Paul Casimir Marcinkus, former pro-president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, on February 21, at the age of 84.

 - Bishop Michael Francis McAuliffe, emeritus of Jefferson City, U.S.A., on January 9, at the age of 85.

 - Bishop Carlos Schmitt O.F.M., emeritus of Dourados, Brazil, on January 16, at the age of 86.

 - Bishop Marko Sopi, apostolic administrator of Prizren, Srbija i Crna Gora, on January 11, at the age of 67.

 - Archbishop David de Sousa O.F.M., emeritus of Evora, Portugal, on February 5, at the age of 94.

 - Bishop Desmond A. Williams, former auxiliary of Dublin, Ireland, on February 24, at the age of 75.
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