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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

IN MEMORIAM


Vatican City, 1 April 2014 (VIS) – The following prelates died in recent weeks:

- Archbishop Lawrence Patrick Henry, emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa, on 4 March at the age of 79.

- Bishop Javier Naranjo Villegas, emeritus of Santa Marta, Colombia, on 7 March at the age of 95.

- Archbishop Francesco De Nittis, apostolic nuncio of Uruguay, on 10 March at the age of 80.

-Cardinal Jose da Cruz Policarpo, patriarch emeritus of Lisbon, Portugal, on 12 March at the age of 78.

- Bishop Fortunatus M. Lukanima, emeritus of Arusha, Tanzania, on 12 March at the age of 73.

- Bishop Joseph Fan Zhongliang, S.J., emeritus of Shanghai, China, on 16 March at the age of 96.

- Bishop Carlos Marcio Camus Larenas, emeritus of Linares, Chile, on 16 March at the age of 87.

- Archbishop Jose Delicado Baeza, emeritus of Valladolid, Spain, on 17 March at the age of 87.

- Archbishop Giuseppe Agostino, emeritus of Cosenza-Bisignano, Italy, on 24 March at the age of 85.

- Bishop Wolfgang Kirchgassner, auxiliary emeritus of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, on 26 March at the age of 85.

- Bishop Michael Ernest Putney, of Townsville, Australia, on 28 March at the age of 67.


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