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25Jul 2025

Recent deaths, necrology and ordination anniversaries – August 2025


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

Priests: 

Reverend Nicholas Caron, O.C.S.O.  8/1/1967 
Reverend Monsignor Patrick J. O’Connor  8/1/1980 
Reverend Charles J. Kerscher  8/1/2006 
Reverend Hugh Byron  8/3/1993 
Reverend Monsignor Michael J. Regan  8/8/1999 
Reverend Monsignor John F. McDonough  8/9/1992 
Reverend Vincent P. Brennan, S.M.  8/10/1993 
Reverend James P. Adams  8/12/2023 
Reverend Jacob Bollmer  8/18/2000 
Reverend Lawrence Schmuhl  8/22/2011 
Reverend Richard Zivic  8/23/2018 
Reverend Eugene Hughes, S.M.  8/24/2010 
Reverend Michael Patrick Hogan  8/24/2020 
Reverend Monsignor John D. Stapleton  8/26/1972 
Reverend Joseph L. Peacock  8/31/1997 

Deacons: 

Deacon Robert A. O’Neill  8/1/2013 
Deacon William Payne, Jr.  8/9/2019 
Deacon William P. Diehl  8/11/2006 
Deacon Joseph H. Fugere  8/14/2014 
Deacon Carl I. McBride  8/15/2013 
Deacon Jim Heddermann  8/17/2005 
Deacon Harold Gourgues  8/18/2005 
Deacon Alfred T. Samoranski  8/23/2015 
Deacon William P. Lakin  8/25/2006 

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

Priests: 

Reverend Joseph Mullakkara, M.S.F.S.  8/3/1975 
Reverend Michael Onyekuru  8/5/2000 
Reverend Robert Joseph Brisson Opus Dei  8/15/1985 
Reverend Carl Jean C.S.  8/17/2012 
Reverend Lawrence Day Ford, Jr., O.F.M.  8/18/1996 
Reverend Michael G. Shannon, L.C.  8/20/1993 
Reverend Ikenna Felix Nzeadi  8/26/2017 
Reverend Luis Simon Gallardo  8/29/2013 

Deacons: 

Deacon Robinson Collado  8/07/2021
Deacon Al D. Turner  8/26/2000 
Deacon Kenneth R. Bell 8/28/1999 

  

  

 

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