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Thursday, September 4, 2008

IN MEMORIAM

VATICAN CITY, 3 SEP 2008 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent weeks:

 - Bishop Venancio Celestino Orbe Uriate C.P., bishop-prelate emeritus of Moyobamba, Peru, on 18 July at the age of 81.

 - Bishop Olindo Natale Spagnolo Martellozzo M.C.C.J., former auxiliary of Guayaquil, Ecuador, on 23 July at the age of 82.

 - Archbishop James Chinoa, emeritus of Blantyre, Malawi, on 18 August at the age of 84.

 - Archbishop Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath, emeritus of Papeete, French Polynesia, on 16 August at the age of 84.

 - Bishop Joseph Das, emeritus of Berhampur, India, on 5 August at the age of 78.

 - Bishop Wilhelm Emil Egger O.F.M. Cap. of Bolzano-Bressanone, Italy, on 16 August at the age of 68.

 - Bishop Affonso Felippe Gregory, emeritus of Imperatriz, Brazil, on 6 August at the age of 78.

 - Bishop Michael Kuchmiak C.SS.R., apostolic exarch emeritus for faithful of Byzantine rite resident in Great Britain, on 26 August at the age of 85.

 - Bishop Hippolytus Anthony Kunnunkal O.F.M. Cap., emeritus of Jammu-Srinagar, India, on 9 August at the age of 87.

 - Archbishop Marius Maziers, emeritus of Bordeaux, France, on 14 August at the age of 93.

 - Bishop Wolodymyr Walter Paska, auxiliary emeritus of Philadelphia of the Ukrainians, U.S.A., on 16 August at the age of 84.

 - Bishop Peter Quinn, emeritus of Bunbury, Australia, on 23 August at the age of 80.

 - Bishop Guillermo Ranzahuer Gonzalez, emeritus of San Andres Tuxtla, Mexico, on 5 August at the age of 80.

 - Bishop Paul Schruers, emeritus of Hasselt, Belgium, on 25 August at the age of 78.

 - Bishop Franco Sibilla, emeritus of Asti, Italy, on 12 August at the age of 85.

 - Bishop Manuel d'Almeida Trinidade, emeritus of Aveiro, Portugal, on 5 August at the age of 90.
.../DEATHS/...                            VIS 20080903 (310)

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