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15Dec 2025

Recent deaths, necrology and ordination anniversaries–January 2026


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Recently Deceased

Please remember in your prayers the clergy/religious who died in the month of December:

Necrology [January]

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

Priests:

Reverend Gerard R. Hageman, S.M. 1/1/1961
Reverend William E. Calhoun 1/4/1997
Reverend George T. Daly 1/5/1960
Reverend J. Edwin Kelsch, C.SS.R. 1/7/1969
Reverend Allan Dillman 1/7/2011
Reverend Monsignor Donald Kiernan 1/9/2018
Reverend Walter W. Foley 1/11/2020
Reverend Richmond Egan, S.M. 1/12/2008
Reverend Austin Fogarty 1/15/2014
Reverend Charles F. Brogley, S.M. 1/16/2025
Reverend Juan de la Cruz 1/16/2018
Reverend Michael Anthony Morris 1/19/1998
Reverend Edward D. Hennessey 1/20/1991
Reverend Michael J. Sullivan, S.M. 1/22/1955
Reverend Joseph A. Fahy, C.P. 1/22/2007
Reverend Philip H. Dagneau, S.M. 1/24/1971
Reverend Vincent J. Connors, C.P. 1/27/1975
Reverend Eugene Kwapisz, O.F.M. Conv. 1/27/1988

 

Deacons:

Deacon Val Vincent Bathea 1/5/2021
Deacon Charles E. Moore, Jr. 1/14/1979
Deacon John C. Jansen 1/18/2006
Deacon Robert T. Ragan 1/19/1992
Deacon David J. Higgins 1/21/2007
Deacon Carlos M. García 1/22/2021
Deacon N. Michel Landaiche, Jr. 1/26/2018
Deacon John T. Mason 1/30/2022
Deacon David W. Rauth 1/31/1999
Deacon Edward L. Krise 1/31/2021

 

Anniversary of Ordination [January]

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

 

Priests:

Reverend Edward D. McIlmail 1/2/2001
Reverend William Martin Connor, L.C. 1/2/2001
Reverend Edward N. Hopkins, L.C. 1/3/1991
Reverend Bruce E. Wren, L.C. 1/3/1996
Reverend Francesco Iacona, C.M.F. 1/4/2002

 

Deacons: 

Deacon Thomas A. Coffey 1/18/1992
Deacon Timothy J. Tye 1/26/2019
Deacon Guillermo M. Sevilla 1/26/2019
Deacon Randy J. Ortiz 1/26/2019
Deacon Thomas M. Nemchik 1/26/2019
Deacon Facundo Maldonado 1/26/2019
Deacon Nicholas G. Goodly 1/26/2019
Deacon Timothy F. Dimond 1/26/2019
Deacon Cesar I. Basilio 1/31/2004
Deacon Michael T. Byrne 1/31/2004
Deacon Dennis J. Dorner 1/31/2004
Deacon Leviticus Jelks 1/31/2004

 

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