Recent deaths, necrology and ordination anniversaries October 2025 

Date: September 29, 2025
To: Bulletin editors
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 September: Fr. Francis Kissel, S.M., Rev. Msgr. James Fennessy, Deacon Ken Melvin and Sr. Mary Kateri Pickering, OP. 

Necrology [October] 

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

Priests: 

Reverend John P. O’Brien O.P. 
10/01/1993 
Reverend James Atkins 
10/10/2012 
Most Reverend Thomas A. Donnellan 
10/15/1987 
Reverend Mauro Mourlot 
10/16/2000 
Reverend Monsignor James E. King 
10/18/1965 
Reverend Michael S. Sherliza 
10/22/2018 
Reverend Michael J. McKeever 
10/25/1983 
Reverend Michael Walter S.M. 
10/30/1905 
Reverend Monsignor Thomas A. Kenny 
10/30/2008 

Deacons: 

Deacon Alexander S. Gallagher 
10/04/2022 
Deacon John F. Thompson 
10/09/2004 
Deacon Jean R. Moenk 
10/11/2006 
Deacon Cecil R. Reimer  
10/11/2021 
Deacon Thomas J. McGrane 
10/15/2020 
Deacon Francis D. Head, Jr. 
10/16/2020 
Deacon John G. Cicala 
10/17/1995 
Deacon William E. Lyday 
10/23/2008 
Deacon Eugene P. Dickerson 
10/23/2016 
Deacon Donald W. Marchildon 
10/25/2021 

Anniversary of Ordination [October] 

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

Priests: 

Reverend Carlos J. Gonzalez Santiago, S.F.M. 
10/04/2004  
Reverend Calixto Salvatierra Moreno, O.F.M. Conv. 
10/07/2004 
Reverend Jose Guadalupe Matus-Castillo, O.F.M. Conv. 
10/10/1998 
Reverend Santo Presti Cricchio, O.F.M. Conv. 
10/12/1991 
Reverend Robert Zaw Lwin, M.S. 
10/12/2009 

Deacons:  

Deacon James A. Gibson 
10/03/2009 
Deacon Christopher A. Carroll 
10/05/1996 
Deacon James E. Morgan 
10/19/2013