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25Apr 2025

Recent deaths, necrology and ordination anniversaries–May 2025


Recently Deceased

Please remember in your prayers the clergy/religious who died in the month of April: Pope Francis, Deacon Ray Richardson and Deacon Thomas Shaver.

Necrology [May]
Please remember in prayer the deceased clergy whose anniversaries occur this month:

Priests:

Reverend John R. Henley 5/07/2003
Reverend Ignatius Gottfried, S.M. 5/10/1951
Reverend Monsignor Leo P. Herbert 5/15/2017
Reverend Terry Kane 5/17/2017
Reverend Monsignor E. Peter Ludden 5/18/1989
Reverend Patrick Mendola, OFM Conv. 5/18/1995
Reverend James H. Sextone 5/19/2022
Reverend Francis Larney, S.M. 5/20/1941
Reverend Thomas Roshetko, S.M. 5/21/1981
Reverend Brent A. Bohan 5/22/1988
Reverend John J. Emerick, S.M. 5/29/1993
Reverend Joseph F. Ware 5/31/2005
Reverend Monsignor Stephen T. Churchwell 5/31/2018

Deacons:

Deacon Stephen Bek 5/03/2017
Deacon Robert B. Smith 5/06/2019
Deacon Aloysius (Al) McHugh 5/06/2021
Deacon Homer Woods 5/08/2000
Deacon Hilliard M. Lee 5/08/2018
Deacon David C. Corbett 5/10/2010
Deacon James Weiss 5/11/2019
Deacon Paul E. Krarup 5/16/2022
Deacon Richard E. Machan 5/21/1994
Deacon Maurice P. Chapple 5/26/2004
Deacon Jon Gary Atkinson 5/29/2023
Deacon Winston A. Leverett 5/30/1998

Anniversary of Ordination [May]
We pray for God’s blessing on the following Clergy who celebrate the anniversary of their ordination during this month:

Priests:

Reverend Renerse Koyickalotu Joseph 5/02/2013
Reverend Terrance J. Allen, L.C. 5/04/2019
Reverend Nicodemus Aung Than Aye, M.S. 5/04/2004
Reverend David Kyaw Kyaw Lwin, M.S. 5/04/2004
Reverend Patrick J. O’Loughlin, L.C. 5/04/2019
Reverend James Duffy, S.M. 5/05/1979
Most Reverend Gregory John Hartmayer, OFM Conv. 5/05/1979
Reverend Sunny Punnakuziyil, M.S.F.S. 5/05/1994
Reverend Petrus Pitol, C.S. 5/06/2015
Reverend Monsignor Terry Wade Young 5/06/1972
Reverend John M. VanDrope, L.C. 5/07/2022
Reverend Thomas Lee Jackson, O.P. 5/09/1992
Reverend Noble Dominic-Ambalathuruthel, M.S.F.S. 5/14/2014
Reverend Jude Michael Krill, OFM Conv. 5/14/1983
Reverend Jordi S. Rivero 5/15/1982
Reverend Balappa Selvaraj 5/15/1986
Reverend Adam Martin Blatt 5/16/2015
Reverend James A. Henault, M.S. 5/17/1980
Reverend Roy Arthur Lee 5/17/1986
Very Reverend Patrick A. Bishop 5/18/1974
The Most Reverend Joel M. Konzen, S.M. 5/19/1979
Reverend William Frederick Rowland, S.M. 5/19/1979
Reverend Anthony T. Curran 5/20/1967
Reverend Thomas J. Meehan 5/20/1972
Reverend Victor J. Reyes 5/20/1994
Reverend John J. Boll, O.P. 5/21/1982
Reverend John S. Adamski 5/22/1971
Reverend Joseph G. Aquino, M.S. 5/24/1969
Reverend Tamiru F. Atraga 5/24/2008
Reverend Paul Anthony Burke 5/24/1996
Reverend Robert R. Butler, M.S. 5/24/1969
Reverend Jacek Grzegorz Nowak, S.Ch. 5/24/2994
Reverend Tobias Rodriguez Lasa 5/25/2002
Reverend Joseph Walter Favole, F.S.S.P. 5/26/2017
Reverend Urey P. Mark, S.V.D. 5/26/2007
Reverend Monsignor Francis G. McNamee 5/26/1995
Reverend Yuen Servañez Caballejo 5/27/2006
Reverend Rafael Angel Carballo-Arroyo 5/27/2006
Reverend Pete Angus Coppola 5/27/2023
Reverend Evan Michael Glowzinski 5/27/2023
Reverend José Luis Hernández Ayala 5/27/2006
Reverend Matthew Ryan Howard 5/27/2023
Reverend Nicholas Minh Le 5/27/2023
Reverend John M. Murphy 5/27/1994
Reverend Monsignor W. Joseph Corbett 5/28/1995
Reverend Avery Edward Daniel 5/28/2022
Reverend Neil J. Herlihy 5/28/2005
Reverend Francis X. Richardson 5/28/1993
Reverend Brian R. Sheridan, M.S. 5/28/1983
Reverend Benjamin Robert Thomsen 5/28/2022
Reverend Juan Carlos Villota Viteri 5/28/2022
Reverend Joseph Edward Wagner 5/28/2022
Reverend Russell S. Governale 5/28/1988
Reverend Brian T. Austin, F.S.S.P. 5/30/2009
Reverend Jeffery Ott, O.P. 5/30/2002
Reverend Robert Perez Carrasco, O.F.M. Cap. 5/30/2015
Reverend John Patrick Sullivan, M.S. 5/30/1970
Auxiliary Bishop John Nhan Tran 5/30/1992
Reverend Juan Francisco Anzora 5/31/2008
Reverend Juan Areiza Rios 5/31/2008
Reverend Henry Atem 5/31/2008
Reverend Neil Dhabliwala 5/31/2008
Reverend Robert A. Dow, F.S.S.P. 5/31/2014
Reverend Kevin John Duggan, S.M. 5/31/1986
Reverend Gilbert Exumé 5/31/2008
Reverend Roberto Herrera Castañeda 5/31/2008
Reverend Daniel P. Ketter 5/31/2008

Deacons: 

Deacon Frederick Toca 5/1/2001
Deacon Dennis Alan Conrad 5/2/2015
Deacon Bradford A. Krupa 5/10/2003
Deacon Paul H. Franklin 5/12/2012
Deacon Bernard J. Casey 5/14/1999
Deacon Joseph C. Anzalone 5/16/1987
Deacon Matias A. Casal 5/16/1987
Deacon Jerry F. Connell 5/16/1987
Deacon Frank Fenton Coughlin 5/16/1987
Deacon Evelio García-Carreras 5/16/1987
Deacon Enrique Leonidas Galvis 5/16/1987
Deacon Edmund M. Grabowy 5/16/1987
Deacon Louis A. Hettel 5/16/1987
Deacon David Jeremiah Higgins 5/16/1987
Deacon Arturo P. Jimenez 5/16/1987
Deacon William L. Jindrich 5/16/1987
Deacon Michael R. Jones 5/16/1987
Deacon Thomas J. McGrane 5/16/1987
Deacon J. Nicholas Morning 5/16/1987
Deacon Samuel M. Mure 5/16/1987
Deacon Jose A. Narváez 5/16/1987
Deacon Benjamin Rivers Petty 5/16/1987
Deacon Cecil R. Reimer 5/16/1987
Deacon Whitney Robichaux 5/16/1987
Deacon Fred J. Sambrone 5/16/1987
Deacon Frederick J. Stroop 5/16/1987
Deacon Richard M. Suever 5/16/1987
Deacon William Glynn Timme 5/16/1987
Deacon Richard P. Tolcher 5/16/1987
Deacon Gary David Womack 5/16/1987
Deacon Luis R. Polanco 5/17/2008
Deacon Bernard C. Bosse 5/19/2018
Deacon Marino Gonzalez 5/19/2007
Deacon Richard J. Kren 5/21/2016
Deacon Douglas J. Anderson 5/23/1987
Deacon Val Vincent Bathea 5/23/1987
Deacon Richard Francis Beckman 5/23/1987
Deacon Paul E. Dietz 5/23/1987
Deacon James M. Easterwood 5/23/1987
Deacon Alexander S. Gallagher 5/23/1987
Deacon William W. Keeling 5/23/1987
Deacon Martin J. Lampe 5/23/1987
Deacon Thomas F. Mackin 5/23/1987
Deacon Gerardo G. Martorell 5/23/1987
Deacon Alfred Mitchell 5/23/1987
Deacon Jean Robert Moenk 5/23/1987
Deacon Donald N. Nadeau 5/23/1987
Deacon Michael Joseph O’Brien 5/23/1987
Deacon Bruce C. Publicover 5/23/1987
Deacon Thomas R. Shaver 5/23/1987
Deacon John F. Thompson 5/23/1987
Deacon Phillip G. Smilski 5/26/2012
Deacon José M. Class 5/31/2003
Deacon Thomas J. Eden 5/31/2008
Deacon Robert J. Kepshire 5/31/2008
Deacon Luis C. Lorza 5/31/2003

 

 

 

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