Recent deaths, necrology and ordination anniversaries  July 2025 

Date: June 30, 2025
To: Bulletin editors, parish staff
From: Maureen Smith, chief communications officer, Office of Communications

Recently Deceased 
Please remember in your prayers the clergy/religious who died in the month of June: Deacon Robert M. Rich 

Necrology [July] 

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

Priests: 

Reverend Raphael McDonald, O.F.M. 
7/11/2000 
Reverend Monsignor Michael M. Manning 
7/21/1984 
Reverend James M. Cummings, S.M. 
7/22/1999 
Monsignor Walter J. Donovan 
7/22/2012 

Deacons: 

Deacon Joseph Reynolds 
7/3/2007 
Deacon Michael J. O’Brien 
7/15/2010 
Deacon Edward A. Santa 
7/15/2022 
Deacon Ronald A. Comeau 
7/19/2023 
Deacon James O’Brien 
7/28/2001 
Deacon David L. Briselden 
7/29/2019 
Deacon Dick Narey 
7/30/2005 

Anniversary of Ordination [July] 

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

Priests: 

Reverend Tuan “John” Anh Pham 
7/1/2006 
Reverend Eugene Koutoua Adingra 
7/1/2006 
Reverend James J. Akpan 
7/2/2011 
Reverend Lorenzo Yong Sop Yom, S.J. 
7/2/1997 
Reverend Gerald Nsiyumwe Bahezwa 
7/2/1997 
Reverend Sunghyun Kim S.J. 
7/3/2019 
Reverend Dung Nguyen, J.C.L. 
7/13/2002 
Reverend Luke R. Ballman 
7/14/2001 
Reverend Charles A. Byrd, V.F. 
7/14/2001 
The Very Reverend Roberto A. Orellana 
7/14/2001 
Reverend Lamartine Joseph Eliscar, M.S. 
7/17/2010 
Reverend Tony K. Akoury 
7/22/1995 
Reverend Jean Ngeyeye Ikanga, S.V.D. 
7/27/2003 
Reverend Donatus Ikechukwu Ezenneka 
7/31/1998 

Deacons: 

Deacon Keith M. Kolodziej 7/1/1995