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26Sep 2025

Recent deaths, necrology and ordination anniversaries – October 2025


Recently Deceased
Please remember in your prayers the clergy/religious who died in the month of September: Fr. Francis Kissel, S.M., Rev. Msgr. James Fennessy, Deacon Ken Melvin and Sr. Mary Kateri Pickering, OP.  

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

Priests: 

Reverend John P. O’Brien O.P.  10/01/1993 
Reverend James Atkins  10/10/2012 
Most Reverend Thomas A. Donnellan  10/15/1987 
Reverend Mauro Mourlot  10/16/2000 
Reverend Monsignor James E. King  10/18/1965 
Reverend Michael S. Sherliza  10/22/2018 
Reverend Michael J. McKeever  10/25/1983 
Reverend Michael Walter S.M.  10/30/1905 
Reverend Monsignor Thomas A. Kenny  10/30/2008 

Deacons: 

Deacon Alexander S. Gallagher  10/04/2022 
Deacon John F. Thompson  10/09/2004 
Deacon Jean R. Moenk  10/11/2006 
Deacon Cecil R. Reimer   10/11/2021 
Deacon Thomas J. McGrane  10/15/2020 
Deacon Francis D. Head, Jr.  10/16/2020 
Deacon John G. Cicala  10/17/1995 
Deacon William E. Lyday  10/23/2008 
Deacon Eugene P. Dickerson  10/23/2016 
Deacon Donald W. Marchildon  10/25/2021 

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

Priests: 

Reverend Carlos J. Gonzalez Santiago, S.F.M.  10/04/2004
Reverend Calixto Salvatierra Moreno, O.F.M. Conv.  10/07/2004 
Reverend Jose Guadalupe Matus-Castillo, O.F.M. Conv.  10/10/1998 
Reverend Santo Presti Cricchio, O.F.M. Conv.  10/12/1991 
Reverend Robert Zaw Lwin, M.S.  10/12/2009 

Deacons:  

Deacon James A. Gibson  10/03/2009 
Deacon Christopher A. Carroll  10/05/1996 
Deacon James E. Morgan  10/19/2013 

 

 

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