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The Year of Our Lord 1953

Necrology


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DateAgeBishopTitle
unknown78.0Maurice Boch, S.M. †Prefect Emeritus of Northern Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
unknownGiuseppe Ribeiro de Magalhaes, O.F.M. †Prefect of Guinea Portoghese, Guinea-Bissau
unknown75.4Joseph Cui Shouxun (Tsui Shou-hsun, Tsoei Shou-hsün)Bishop of Yongnian [Yüngnien], China
2 Jan72.6Fortunato Chirichigno Pontolido, S.D.B. †Bishop of Piura, Peru
3 Jan72.8Philip George ScherBishop of Monterey-Fresno, California, USA
8 Jan74.3Ivan Romanov (Romanoff)Vicar Apostolic of Sofia e Plovdiv, Bulgaria
13 Jan73.1Fulvio TessaroliBishop Emeritus of Segni, Italy
17 Jan90.6Santiago Ricardo Vilanova y MeléndezBishop Emeritus of Santa Ana, El Salvador
31 Jan69.6Heinrich Leven, S.V.D. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Isole della Piccola Sonda, Indonesia
13 Feb61.1Andrzej Cikoto, M.I.C. †Apostolic Exarch of Harbin [Harbin] (Russian), China
14 Feb65.8Balbino Santos y OlveraArchbishop of Granada, Spain
15 Feb70.6Franz HartzPrelate Emeritus of Schneidemühl, Poland
18 Feb68.8Pio GiardinaBishop of Nicosia, Italy
19 Feb72.3Giovanni Battista Anselmo, P.I.M.E. †Bishop Emeritus of Dinajpur, Bangladesh
20 Feb71.1Augustinus Philipp BaumannAuxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany
10 Mar78.9Ignacy Maria DubowskiBishop Emeritus of Luceoria o Łuck e Zytomir o Zytomierz, Ukraine
30 Mar67.6Alexandre VachonArchbishop of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
12 Apr72.8John DignanBishop of Clonfert, Ireland
15 Apr76.4Moses Elias KileyArchbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
17 Apr79.7Henri-Édouard DutoitBishop Emeritus of Arras, France
18 Apr61.3Joannes Groen, M.S.F. †Vicar Apostolic of Bandjarmasin, Indonesia
7 May69.9Juan Francisco AragoneArchbishop Emeritus of Montevideo, Uruguay
11 May67.2Francesco Saverio Bini, F.S.C.J. †Vicar Apostolic of Khartoum, Sudan
15 May72.5Antonio García y GarcíaArchbishop of Valladolid, Spain
15 May83.4Henri Léonard, M. Afr. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Tabora, Tanzania
18 May72.4Patrick Joseph McCormickAuxiliary Bishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
18 May57.9Luigi Santa, I.M.C. †Bishop of Rimini, Italy
25 May79.1César Antonio CánevaBishop of Azul, Argentina
31 May87.1Joseph Francis BuschBishop of Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA
16 Jun72.1Richard Joseph DowneyArchbishop of Liverpool, England, Great Britain
17 Jun69.9Patrick Albert Bray, C.I.M. †Bishop of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
20 Jun69.4Charles-Albert Gounot, C.M. †Archbishop of Carthage, Tunisia
23 Jun68.6Adriano BernareggiBishop of Bergamo, Italy
27 Jun45.5Bl. Ioan SuciuApostolic Administrator of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia (Romanian), Romania
28 Jun70.3Étienne KatchoAuxiliary Bishop of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq
7 Jul52.4Michele RateniBishop of San Marco e Bisignano, Italy
10 Jul69.0Romualdo M. Migliorini, O.S.M. †Prefect Emeritus of Swaziland
15 Jul70.8Ivanios Givergis Thomas Panikervitis (Panickerveetil)Archbishop of Trivandrum (Syro-Malankara), India
18 Jul81.5Hormisdas Étienne DjibriArchbishop of Kerkūk (Chaldean), Iraq
19 Jul63.7John Joseph BoylanBishop of Rockford, Illinois, USA
5 Aug87.9Augustin-Fernand LeynaudArchbishop of Alger, Algeria
12 Aug67.1Pietro Ermenegildo Focaccia, O.F.M. †Bishop of Yuci [Yütze], China
14 Aug53.5Athanase Paul HindoArchbishop of Baghdad (Syrian), Iraq
19 Aug63.4Gyözö Simon MacalikAuxiliary Bishop of Alba Iulia, Romania
24 Aug75.0Elie Rischa (Richa)Bishop of Baalbek (Maronite), Lebanon
27 Aug36.1Péter OroszAuxiliary Bishop of Mukachevo (Munkács) (Ruthenian), Ukraine
28 Aug67.9Louis-Gabriel-Xavier Jantzen, M.E.P. †Archbishop Emeritus of Chongqing [Chungking], China
29 Aug64.4Francis Joseph HaasBishop of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
30 Aug65.3Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani, O.F.M. †Official of the Secretariat of State
31 Aug54.9Jean Batiot, C.S.Sp. †Vicar Apostolic of Majunga, Madagascar
18 Sep66.6Ubald Langlois, O.M.I. †Vicar Apostolic of Grouard, Alberta, Canada
19 Sep69.6Giuseppe DebernardiBishop of Pistoia e Prato, Italy
23 Sep64.1Paul Adam Curran, O.P. †Prefect of Jian’ou [Kienow, Kienning], China
2 Oct70.2Umberto UgliengoBishop of Susa, Italy
3 Oct42.6Bl. Szilárd István BogdánffyAuxiliary Bishop of Oradea Mare {Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad} and Satu Mare {Szatmár}, Romania
6 Oct70.0Jacques Hubert Goumans, O.S.C. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Bandung, Indonesia
10 Oct75.2Roberto VicentiniTitular Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch}
13 Oct78.1Bernardo BertoglioBishop of Bobbio (-Abbey of San Colombano), Italy
13 Oct86.5Dionisio Vismara, P.I.M.E. †Bishop Emeritus of Hyderabad, India
5 Nov82.8Alain Guynot de Boismenu, M.S.C. †Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Papua, Papua New Guinea
8 Nov69.7Mečislovas ReinysAuxiliary Bishop of Vilnius, Lithuania
30 Nov54.8Joseph MastersonArchbishop of Birmingham, England, Great Britain
15 Dec87.1Bonaventura PortaBishop Emeritus of Pesaro, Italy
25 Dec99.5Leonidas MedinaBishop Emeritus of Socorro y San Gil, Colombia

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