Recent deaths, necrology and ordination anniversaries November 2025 

Date: November 3, 2025
To: Communique recipients
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 October:  

Deacon Jerry Korte 10/8/2025 

Necrology [November] 

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

Priests: 

Reverend Robert E. Baker, S.M. 
11/1/1994 
Reverend Martin John Kopchik, MSFS 
11/6/2010 
Reverend Joseph C. Cavallo 
11/7/1990 
Reverend Edward A. O’Connor 
11/7/2016 
Reverend John A. Morel, S.M. 
11/11/1954 
Most Reverend John F. Donoghue 
11/11/2011 
Most Reverend Eugene A. Marino, S.S.J. 
11/12/2000 
Reverend J. Douglas Edwards 
11/15/1997 
Reverend Robert E. Dyer, M.S. 
11/18/1986 
Reverend Richard A. Kieran 
11/21/2016 
Reverend John DeVore, M.S.F.S. 
11/22/2016 
Reverend Henry E. Phillips 
11/25/1967 
Reverend Patrick F. Mulhern 
11/29/2006 

Deacons: 

Deacon M. Robert Mulligan 
11/1/2005 
Deacon Gary Womack 
11/3/2010 
Deacon Jerry F. Connell 
11/3/2020 
Deacon Raymond F. Egan 
11/6/2021 
Deacon William A. MacDonald 
11/11/2017 
Deacon Michael A. Capozza 
11/19/2003 
Deacon Walter P. King Jr. 
11/20/2023 
Deacon Dale F. Lister 
11/21/2008 
Deacon Fernando Barrueta 
11/21/2017 
Deacon Thomas Metzger 
11/21/2019 
Deacon Thomas Mackin 
11/22/2012 

Anniversary of Ordination [November] 

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

Priests: 

Reverend Carlos Arturo Quintero Galvis 
11/24/1984 
Reverend Steven J. Reilly, L.C. 
11/25/1994 
Reverend James Robert Swanson, L.C. 
11/25/1994 
Reverend Lijo Joseph Parambummuriyil, O.F.M. Cap.  
11/26/2019 
 
 

Deacons:  

Deacon Thomas S. Martin 11/16/2013