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27Jun 2025

Recent deaths, necrology and ordination anniversaries – July 2025


Recently Deceased
Please remember in your prayers the clergy/religious who died in the month of June: Deacon Robert M. Rich

Necrology [July]

Please remember in prayer the deceased clergy whose anniversaries occur this month:

Priests:

Reverend Raphael McDonald, O.F.M. 7/11/2000
Reverend Monsignor Michael M. Manning 7/21/1984
Reverend James M. Cummings, S.M. 7/22/1999
Monsignor Walter J. Donovan 7/22/2012

Deacons:

Deacon Joseph Reynolds 7/3/2007
Deacon Michael J. O’Brien 7/15/2010
Deacon Edward A. Santa 7/15/2022
Deacon Ronald A. Comeau 7/19/2023
Deacon James O’Brien 7/28/2001
Deacon David L. Briselden 7/29/2019
Deacon Dick Narey 7/30/2005

Anniversary of Ordination [July]

We pray for God’s blessing on the following clergy who celebrate the anniversary of their ordination during this month:

Priests:

Reverend Tuan “John” Anh Pham 7/1/2006
Reverend Eugene Koutoua Adingra 7/1/2006
Reverend James J. Akpan 7/2/2011
Reverend Lorenzo Yong Sop Yom, S.J. 7/2/1997
Reverend Gerald Nsiyumwe Bahezwa 7/2/1997
Reverend Sunghyun Kim S.J. 7/3/2019
Reverend Dung Nguyen, J.C.L. 7/13/2002
Reverend Luke R. Ballman 7/14/2001
Reverend Charles A. Byrd, V.F. 7/14/2001
The Very Reverend Roberto A. Orellana 7/14/2001
Reverend Lamartine Joseph Eliscar, M.S. 7/17/2010
Reverend Tony K. Akoury 7/22/1995
Reverend Jean Ngeyeye Ikanga, S.V.D. 7/27/2003
Reverend Donatus Ikechukwu Ezenneka 7/31/1998

Deacons:

Deacon Keith M. Kolodziej 7/1/1995

 

 

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