The Year of Our Lord 2012

Necrology

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Date	Age	Bishop	Title
1 Jan	87.0	Alfredo Battisti †	Archbishop Emeritus of Udine, Italy
10 Jan	83.8	José Freire de Oliveira Neto †	Bishop Emeritus of Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
14 Jan	99.8	Antonio Mistrorigo †	Bishop Emeritus of Treviso, Italy
17 Jan	80.5	Colin Campbell †	Bishop Emeritus of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
19 Jan	83.7	Giovanni De Andrea †	Vice President Emeritus of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See
20 Jan	77.8	Robert Fortune Sanchez †	Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
26 Jan	86.2	Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver †	Bishop Emeritus of Ponce, Puerto Rico
29 Jan	83.4	Gabriel Lawrence Sengol †	Bishop Emeritus of Tiruchirapalli, India
30 Jan	95.8	Eladio Acosta Arteaga, C.I.M. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Fe de Antioquia, Colombia
31 Jan	90.9	Everardus Antonius M. Baaij, S.C.I. †	Bishop Emeritus of Aliwal, South Africa
31 Jan	88.6	Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2 Feb	81.8	Paul Consbruch †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paderborn, Germany
4 Feb	67.7	Joseph Walter Estabrook †	Auxiliary Bishop of United States of America, Military
4 Feb	94.2	Pierre-Eugène Rouanet, S.M.A. †	Bishop Emeritus of Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire
4 Feb	83.9	Giovanni Volta †	Bishop Emeritus of Pavia, Italy
10 Feb	88.8	Filippo Giannini †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Roma {Rome}, Italy
10 Feb	84.0	Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza †	Bishop Emeritus of La Guaira, Venezuela
13 Feb	74.3	Ladislau Biernaski, C.M. †	Bishop of São José dos Pinhais, Parana, Brazil
17 Feb	80.1	Joseph Faber MacDonald †	Bishop Emeritus of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
20 Feb	75.9	Edgardo Gabriel Storni †	Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, Argentina
21 Feb	89.3	Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falcão †	Bishop Emeritus of Beja, Portugal
26 Feb	85.1	Georg (Karl Maria} Holzherr, O.S.B. †	Abbot Emeritus of Maria Einsiedeln, Switzerland
27 Feb	67.3	Werner Guballa †	Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Germany
2 Mar	75.4	José Adolfo Mojica Morales †	Bishop Emeritus of Sonsonate, El Salvador
3 Mar	74.3	Stephen M. Tiru †	Bishop of Khunti, India
4 Mar	89.8	John Charles Reiss †	Bishop Emeritus of Trenton, New Jersey, USA
9 Mar	92.0	José Tomás Sánchez †	Cardinal, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy
10 Mar	74.3	Hermín Negrón Santana †	Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
12 Mar	69.2	Augustin Misago †	Bishop of Gikongoro, Rwanda
12 Mar	67.5	Wilson Abraham Moncayo Jalil †	Bishop of Santo Domingo en Ecuador
13 Mar	84.6	Hans Ludvig Martensen, S.J. †	Bishop Emeritus of København {Copenhagen}, Denmark
18 Mar	74.6	Anárghyros Printesis †	Apostolic Exarch Emeritus of Greece (Greek)
20 Mar	89.8	Ante Juric †	Archbishop Emeritus of Split-Makarska, Croatia
21 Mar	88.7	John George Chedid †	Bishop Emeritus of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles (Maronite), California, USA
24 Mar	89.2	Edward Henryk Materski †	Bishop Emeritus of Radom, Poland
29 Mar	88.2	Paulino Reale Chirina †	Bishop Emeritus of Venado Tuerto, Argentina
3 Apr	79.3	Arduino Bertoldo †	Bishop Emeritus of Foligno, Italy
3 Apr	81.7	Michael Bzdel, C.SS.R. †	Archbishop Emeritus of Winnipeg (Ukrainian), Manitoba, Canada
3 Apr	83.3	Efraím Basílio Krevey (Krevei), O.S.B.M. †	Bishop Emeritus of São João Batista em Curitiba (Ukrainian), Brazil
6 Apr	76.6	Felipe Fernández García †	Bishop Emeritus of San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife, Spain
7 Apr	81.6	Ignace Moussa I (Basile) Daoud †	Cardinal, Patriarch Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
10 Apr	89.7	Luis Aponte Martínez †	Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of San Juan de Puerto Rico
10 Apr	79.3	Leonardo Mario Bernacchi, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Camiri, Bolivia
11 Apr	83.9	Agustín Alejo (Aleido) Román Rodríguez †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Miami, Florida, USA
13 Apr	86.1	Mario Rizzi †	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Bulgaria
16 Apr	82.2	Antoine Hamid Mourany †	Archbishop Emeritus of Damas (Maronite), Syria
18 Apr	91.7	José Cerviño Cerviño †	Bishop Emeritus of Tui-Vigo, Spain
21 Apr	79.0	Ramón Búa Otero †	Bishop Emeritus of Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño, Spain
25 Apr	71.9	Jan Bernard Szlaga †	Bishop of Pelplin, Poland
3 May	75.9	František Tondra †	Bishop Emeritus of Spiš, Slovakia
4 May	74.0	Anthony Joseph O’Connell †	Bishop Emeritus of Palm Beach, Florida, USA
6 May	73.3	Félix Kouadjo †	Bishop of Bondoukou, Côte d’Ivoire
8 May	89.5	William Aquin Carew †	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Japan
13 May	106.2	Antoine Nguyên Van Thien †	Bishop Emeritus of Vinh Long, Viêt Nam
19 May	80.6	Isak Doera †	Bishop Emeritus of Sintang, Indonesia