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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

IN MEMORIAM

VATICAN CITY, 13 APR 2010 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent weeks:

 - Bishop Hilario Chavez Joya M.N.M., emeritus of Nuevo Casas Grandes, Mexico, on 4 March at the age of 82.

 - Bishop Paul Kim Ok-kyun, former auxiliary of Seoul, Korea, on 1 March at the age of 84.

 - Bishop Carlo Chenis S.D.B. of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia, Italy, on 19 March at the age of 55.

 - Bishop Franco Gualdrini, emeritus of Terni-Narni-Amelia, Italy, on 22 March at the age of 86.

 - Bishop Josef Homeyer, emeritus of Hildesheim, Germany, on 30 March at the age of 80.

 - Bishop Leroy Theodore Matthiesen, emeritus of Amarillo, U.S.A., on 22 March at the age of 88.

 - Bishop Vincent Mensah, emeritus of Porto Novo, Benin, on 10 March at the age of 85.

 - Bishop Zygmunt Jozef Pawlowicz, former auxiliary of Gdansk, Poland, on 18 March at the age of 82.

 - Archbishop Jose Antonio Peteiro Freire O.F.M., emeritus of Tanger, Morocco, on 25 March at the age of 73.

 - Bishop Fernando Iorio Rodrgiues, emeritus of Palmeira dos Indios, Brazil, on 20 March at the age of 80.
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