Recent deaths, necrology and ordination anniversaries  January 2026 

Date: December 15, 2025
To: Bulletin editors, mission secretaries and parish secretaries
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 December:  Deacon Carl Psota

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