Recent deaths, necrology and ordination anniversaries  August 2025 Necrology [August] 

Date: July 24, 2025
To: Bulletin editors, mission secretaries and parish secretaries
From: Maureen Smith, chief communications officer, Office of Communications

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

Priests:  

Reverend Nicholas Caron, O.C.S.O.   
8/1/1967  
Reverend Monsignor Patrick J. O’Connor  
8/1/1980  
Reverend Charles J. Kerscher  
8/1/2006  
Reverend Hugh Byron  
8/3/1993  
Reverend Monsignor Michael J. Regan  
8/8/1999  
Reverend Monsignor John F. McDonough  
8/9/1992  
Reverend Vincent P. Brennan, S.M.  
8/10/1993  
Reverend James P. Adams  
8/12/2023  
Reverend Jacob Bollmer  
8/18/2000  
Reverend Lawrence Schmuhl  
8/22/2011  
Reverend Richard Zivic  
8/23/2018  
Reverend Eugene Hughes, S.M.  
8/24/2010  
Reverend Michael Patrick Hogan  
8/24/2020  
Reverend Monsignor John D. Stapleton  
8/26/1972  
Reverend Joseph L. Peacock  
8/31/1997  

Deacons:  

Deacon Robert A. O’Neill  
8/1/2013  
Deacon William Payne, Jr.  
8/9/2019  
Deacon William P. Diehl  
8/11/2006  
Deacon Joseph H. Fugere  
8/14/2014  
Deacon Carl I. McBride  
8/15/2013  
Deacon Jim Heddermann  
8/17/2005  
Deacon Harold Gourgues  
8/18/2005  
Deacon Alfred T. Samoranski  
8/23/2015  
Deacon William P. Lakin  
8/25/2006  

Anniversary of Ordination [August] 

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

Priests:  

Reverend Joseph Mullakkara, M.S.F.S.  
8/3/1975  
Reverend Michael Onyekuru  
8/5/2000  
Reverend Robert Joseph Brisson Opus Dei  
8/15/1985  
Reverend Carl Jean C.S.  
8/17/2012  
Reverend Lawrence Day Ford, Jr., O.F.M.  
8/18/1996  
Reverend Michael G. Shannon, L.C.  
8/20/1993  
Reverend Ikenna Felix Nzeadi  
8/26/2017  
Reverend Luis Simon Gallardo  
8/29/2013  

Deacons:  

Deacon Robinson Collado  
8/07/2021 
Deacon Al D. Turner 
8/26/2000 
Deacon Kenneth R. Bell 
8/28/1999