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News Archive. Postings on the web site for the period September 2000 to the present.
Anniversaries of Deceased Clergy
List of deceased bishops, priests and deacons of the Archdiocese by month.
January
| 1st | Fr Ludger van der Sande OFM Cap (1966) |
| 2nd | Mgr John Colgan (1949): Fr Joseph Coyne CSsR (1982) |
| 3rd | Fr Joseph Griffith (1866): Fr Michael Brassil SDB (1989) |
| 5th | Dcn John Davis (2009) |
| 6th | Mgr John O’Rourke (1974) |
| 7th | Fr James Duignam (1931) |
| 8th | Fr Peter McCusker SDB (1963) |
| 9th | Fr Brendan Maginty OP (1972): Fr Edward Corish CSsR (1992) |
| 10th | Fr Bonaventure Perquin OP (1970) |
| 12th | Mgr Frederick Kolbe (1936) : Fr Edward Lumley-Holmes CSsR (2006) : Fr Werner Stafflinger (2019) |
| 14th | Fr Michael Murray SDB (1981) |
| 16th | Fr Leo Barry MHM (1943) |
| 17th | Bp Francis Hennemann SAC (1951) |
| 18th | Fr Casimir Butler OFM Cap (1958) |
| 20th | Fr Joseph Casey SDB (1947) |
| 21st | Fr Tom Donaghy (2010) |
| 22nd | Fr Francis Treanor SDB (1996) |
| 24th | Dr Denis McAuliffe (1938): Fr Frederick Leicher (1960) : Dcn William Foley (2011) : Fr Bram Martijn (2023) |
| 26th | Dr Charles McCarthy (1928) |
| 27th | Fr Joseph Rockliff (1946) : Fr Aloysius Carroll SDB (2006) |
| 28th | Fr William Tait SDB (1978) |
| 29th | Bp Thomas Grimley (1871) (2nd resident bishop) |
| 30th | Abp John Gordon (1981) (5th Apostolic Delegate) : Fr Irvin Mannoe (2008) : Fr Joseph Boswell (2008) |
| 31st | Dcn Eric Haupt (2014) |
February
| 1st | Dcn Karel Muzik (1996) |
| 2nd | Fr John Wiseman SDB (1989): Dr Bernard McMahon (1882) |
| 7th | Fr Matthew Bonner CSsR (1981) |
| 8th | Fr Harold Bleach SDB (1976): Fr John Garlick (1984) |
| 9th | Fr John Armstrong (1982) |
| 11th | Bp Aidan Devereux (1854): Fr James Kiernan (1868) |
| 12th | Mgr John O’Reilly (1935): Rev Jim O’Byrne OFM (1993): Dcn Alec Agsteribbe (1997) : Dcn Sylvan Pather (2019) |
| 13th | Dcn Victor Gamba (2002): Dcn Alan Morris (2015) |
| 17th | Fr Henry McNamara (1933) : Dcn Richard Croucher (2012) |
| 18th | Bp William Morris OSB (1872) (2nd Vicar Apostolic: Cape/Mauritius) |
| 19th | Bp John Leonard (1908) (3rd Resident Bishop) |
| 20th | Fr Thomas Nolan (1923): Fr Valentin Tanaeff (1992) |
| 21st | Fr Denis Peart (1950): Fr Michael Brennan SDB (1978): Fr Gilbert Conroy CSsR (1980): Fr Gerald Lorriman SJ (2011) : Fr Rowland Anderson CSsR (2023) |
| 26th | Bp John Rooney (1927) (4th Resident Bishop): Fr Aeneas Tozzi SDB (1958) Fr Victor Smeets O Praem (2001) |
| 29th | Fr Christopher Crowley OFM Cap (1984): Fr Patrick Kirwan (1992) |
March
| 1st | Fr John Tyndall (1949) |
| 3rd | Abp Martin Lucas SVD (1969) : Dcn A Ziegler (2001) |
| 3rd 4th |
Dcn William Maritz (2005) Archbishop Lawrence Patrick Henry (2014) |
| 7th | Dcn Arthur Classen (2017) |
| 8th | Fr Thomas Cullen (1929) ; |
| 9th | Mgr Michael McNulty (1978) |
| 10th | Fr Francis McManus (1967) |
| 11th | Fr Sebastian Lee OFM (1985) : Dcn Primo Bissolati (2004) |
| 14th | Fr Ronald Fletcher (1978): Fr John Hoey SDB (2002) |
| 15th | Fr Herbert Leach CSsR (1940) |
| 16th | Fr Alban O’Riley (1919) : Fr Mario Tessarotto CS (2023) |
| 17th | Fr Bernard Keaton CSsR (1970) |
| 20th | Fr Kevin Lenaghan SJ (1952) |
| 21st | Bp Ernest Green (1988) |
| 22nd | Fr Frank Whyte (2020) |
| 23rd | Fr Patrick Naughton (2022) |
| 24th | Fr Edward Kiernan (1980) |
| 26th | Fr William Pilkington CSsR (1977): Owen Cardinal McCann (1994) |
| 27th | Fr James Moran (1908): Fr Isidore Lallemand SJ (1945): Fr Elipius Mangold OFM (1949) |
| 28th | Fr Johannes Lansink (1806) Fr Thomas O’Sullivan (1954) : Mgr Charles Watkins (1998) |
| 29th | Fr Luke McGuiness (1985) |
| 31st | Fr William Doyle CSsR (1977): Fr Basil van Rensburg (2002) |
April
| 3rd | Fr Martin Hayes CSsR (1958) |
| 4th | Fr Arthur Curry CSsR (1989) : Fr Brendan Long (2009) |
| 5th | Fr Bernard O’Reilly (1865) |
| 6th | Fr Mark Flynn CSsR (1988) |
| 8th | Fr Alphonse Pollet SJ (1983) |
| 9th | Fr Daniel Burke OFM (1839): Fr Edward Mitchinson (1993) |
| 16th | Dcn Ken Killian (2006) |
| 17th | Fr Richard Millen SDB (1955) |
| 18th | Fr Thomas Pickering CSsR (1964): Fr Ceslaus Hylands OP (1971) : Fr Sean Lunney CSsR (2022) |
| 19th | Mgr Desmond Hatton (1994) |
| 20th | Dcn John van Roosmalen (2005) |
| 23rd | Fr Patrick Dunne (1869): Abp Alfredo Poledrini (1980) (6th Apostolic Delegate) |
| 27th | Fr Denis Fahy (2008) |
| 28th | Fr Damian Magrath OP (1982) : Fr Milton Strebel O Praem (2006) |
| 29th | Fr James Kelly (1933) |
May
| 3rd | Fr Edward Grey SDB (1978) |
| 5th | Fr Jack Gillick SJ (2005) |
| 6th | Fr Patrick Cosgrove CSsR (2002) |
| 9th | Fr John Heighway OP (1973) : Fr Matthew Agostinelli SDB (2005) : Dcn Rolf Schmidt (2010) ; Dcn Leno Meyers (2013) ; Dcn Raymond Dunlee (2013) |
| 10th | Fr Adam Connolly SDB (1987) : Fr Martin Daly SDB (2003) |
| 11th | Fr Luke O’Reilly (1942) : Dcn John Berry (2000) |
| 12th | Fr Francis Felipe SDB (1963) |
| 14th | Fr John Lawrence CSsR (1970) |
| 15th | Fr Patrick Quinlan (1982) |
| 17th | Mgr Jack Swan (1993) |
| 18th | Mgr Pieter van Ewijk OP (1886): Fr Albert Versmissen OPraem (1977) Fr Peter Paul Feeny OP (1986) |
| 19th | Fr Laurence van Schoor (2007) |
| 20th | Fr Henry van Geest (1943): Fr Edward Graham (1947): Fr David Ross (1982) Fr Philip Foster CSsR (1998). |
| 22nd | Fr John Osbourne CSsR (1969): Fr Cedric Myerscough SJ (2002) |
| 23rd | Fr David de Burgh SDB (1980) ; Fr Jan Kavelaars O Praem. (2012) |
| 24th | Fr Brian Power (1960): Fr Daniel Lucey SDB (1984) |
| 26th | Fr Ernest Manasse OFM (1998) |
| 27th | Fr Henry Banahan (1961): Fr William Butler SJ (1982): Fr Oliver Conroy CSsR (1985) |
| 28th | Fr Peter Rooney (1960) ; Fr Anthony Mutetwa (2013) |
| 30th | Mgr John Morris VG (1954) |
| 31st | Fr Francis Hartin (1936): Fr Ninian McManus OP (1980) : Dcn Luke Burgers (2001) : Fr Claudio Rossi SJ (2006) : Dcn George Paynter (2022) |
June
| 1st | Fr Walter Kittelwesch (1929) |
| 2nd | Fr Michael Hulgraine (2013) |
| 3rd | Dcn Reuben Tana (1977): Mgr Cornelius Lynch (2001) |
| 4th | Fr Eamonn O’Neill (1995) |
| 5th | Fr Agathangelus O’Herlihy OFM Cap (1968): Fr Richard McElligott SDB (1980) |
| 6th | Fr Hildebrand James OP (1971): Rev Mr David Joshua (1993) |
| 7th | Fr William Leeson (1940) : Dcn William September (1998) : Dcn Leonard Bredeveldt (2003) ; Patrick Lonergan SDB (2013) |
| 8th | Fr Frederick Haushahn (1944) |
| 11th | Fr Esmond Klimeck OP (1983) |
| 12th | Fr Lorenz Scheu SAC (1987); Abp John Garner (Abp Emeritus of Pretoria) (1993) : Fr Lionel Manasse (2008) |
| 13th | Mgr Theodore Koenig SAC (1955) |
| 15th | Fr Alfred Rakauone (1971): Bp Edward Slater OSB (1stVicar Apostolic of the Cape / Mauritius) (1832) Dcn Anstey Kay (1998) |
| 16th | Fr John Coxon (1968) |
| 18th | Bp Patrick Griffith OP (1862) (Ist Resident Bishop) : Dcn David Sigege (2020) |
| 20th | Fr John Guilfoyle (1931) |
| 21st | Fr Joseph Spencer CSsR (1979) : Fr Matthew Gormley OFM Cap (2021) |
| 23rd | Fr Dominic Introna SDB (1998) |
| 26th | Fr William Griffin (1936) ; Dcn John Perez (2012) : Dcn John McMahon (2017) |
| 27th | Fr Peter Franzidis OFM (2003) |
| 28th | Fr Michael O’Reilly (1971): Fr John Duffy SDB (1991) |
| 29th | Fr Basil Pietersen (1988): Mr Henry Mack (1988) |
| 30th | Fr Bernard Simpson CSsR (1971): Fr William Brand SJ (1940) |
July
| 1st | Apb Stephen Naidoo CSsR (1989) (8th Resident Bishop; 2nd Archbishop) |
| 2nd | Fr Bryan Gavan-Duffy SJ (1956) : Fr Laurence McCauley (1980) : Fr James O’Haire (1906) |
| 3rd | Fr Seamus Peart (1970) : Fr Vincent Stubbs (1994) |
| 5th | Fr Daniel Hurly (1964) : Dcn Michael Purvis (1994) |
| 6th | Fr Bertram Glynn (1931) : Fr James Hughes CSsR (1960) : Fr Daniel Warren MSC (1960) : Fr Patrick Connaughton (1981) : Fr Patrick O’Brien (1981) : Mgr Donald De Beer (2000) : Mgr Gerald Pietersen (2010) : Fr George Gallagher SDB (2017) |
| 7th | Fr Ralph McNulty CSsR (1988); Fr Bart Prendiville OFM Cap (2004) |
| 9th | Fr James Doyle SDB (1975) |
| 10th | Fr John Devine SDB (1934) : Mgr Harold Doran (1971) |
| 11th | Fr Kenneth Jardine (1968): Mgr Thomas Gill (1975) |
| 12th | Fr Nathaniel Sprake-Marsh SDB (1935) : Dcn Frederick Johnson (2022) |
| 13th | Fr Canice Dooley SDB (2019) |
| 14th | Fr Desmond Fitzgerald CSsR (1966): Fr Philip Shelmerdine (1987) |
| 16th | Fr Christopher Walsh SDB (1947) : Fr Benedict Diepstraten O Praem. (2015) : Dcn Piet Philander (2017) |
| 17th | Fr John Burke (1956) |
| 18th | Fr George Corcoran OP (1852): Fr Liam Long MSC (1971) : Fr Didacus McGrath OFM Cap (2018) |
| 19th | Fr Thomas Introna (1978) : Fr Michael Marshall (1988) : Dcn Roger Letord (2009) |
| 21st | Bp Bernard O’Riley (1956) (5th Resident Bishop) |
| 22nd | Fr James McCauley CSsR (2006) |
| 23rd | Dr Michael Colgan (1922) |
| 24th | Fr Joseph Musgrave SDB (1958) : Dcn John Clarke (1991) |
| 26th | Fr Jeremiah McMorrow (1984) |
| 28th | Fr Ian Barron CSsR (1990) |
| 30th | Fr James O’Carroll SDB (1960) |
| 31st | Dcn Michael Anthony (1986) ; Dcn Vincent Leukes (2013) |
August
| 1st | Fr Richard Marsh CSsR (1966) |
| 3rd | Fr Francis Cerruti SDB (1965) |
| 3rd | Fr Agostino Galante (2000) |
| 5th | Bp Reginald Cawcutt (2022) (Auxiliary Bishop of Cape Town) |
| 7th | Fr Noel Winston OFM Cap (2015) |
| 9th | Fr John Kirby SDB (1992) : Dcn Gerald Sobotker (2020) |
| 10th | Fr Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap (1989) ; Rev Gerard Finnan (1997) Dcn Robert Mguda (2004) |
| 12th | Fr Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap (1957) ; Dcn Allan Herbert (2000): Fr James Kilcullen SDB (2002) |
| 14th | Fr Thomas Wrangham CSsR (1979) |
| 15th | Dcn Isaac Daniels (1994) |
| 17th | Fr William Withnell SJ (1945) |
| 18th | Fr James Harding CSsR (1998) |
| 20th | Fr Nicholas Humphreys OP (1975) ; Fr Michael Crowley MSC (2013) ; Fr Desmond Curran (2015) |
| 21st | Fr Nicholas Watkins (1964) |
| 23rd | Fr Duncan Blackie CSsR (2020) |
| 24th | Mgr Guy Fraser-Ruffell (1999) |
| 25th | Fr Sabino Nascimento (1983) |
| 27th | Dcn John Williams (2002) |
| 29th | Fr John Callan (1987): Fr Dominic Campbell CSsR (1988) ; Dcn Tommy Bergstedt (1994) : Fr Robin van der Spuy CSsR (2008) |
| 30th | Fr James Byrnes (1952) |
| 31st | Fr Anthony Garman SDB (2008) : Fr Rodney Hall (2021) |
September
| 1st | Fr Joseph Dunne (1956) |
| 2nd | Dr Sidney Welch (1956) ; Mgr Anthony Seba (2014) ; Fr Bernard Brown (2015) ; Fr Gabriel Goibaiyer (2017) |
| 3rd | Dcn Victor West (1989) : Fr Christopher Barragry SDB (1964) |
| 5th | Fr Thomas Meagher (1908) : Fr Joseph Gibbons CSsR (1961) Fr Charles McPherson CSsR (1966) |
| 6th | Fr James Melly SDB (1989) |
| 7th | Fr John O’Brien CSsR (1980): Fr Joseph Clinch O Carm (1986) |
| 8th | Fr Edward O’Reilly (1939): Fr John Charlton CSsR (1963) |
| 9th | Fr Charles Grace SDB (1978): Dcn Patrick Sammon (1993) |
| 10th | Fr Emmanuel Giblin OFM (1995) |
| 11th | Fr John Sweeney (1947): Fr Joseph Gerard (1961): Fr James Butler (1964) |
| 12th | Fr Terence Anglim OFM Cap (1947) |
| 13th | Fr John Campbell CSsR (1963) |
| 14th | Fr Benedict van der Meer OP (1970) |
| 15th | Fr Peter Cogliolo SDB (1932) |
| 16th | Fr Honorius O’Neill OFM Cap (1973) |
| 17th | Fr Damascene McKenna OFM Cap (1967) |
| 22nd | Fr Wilfred Ardagh OP (1980): Fr John Smith CSsR (2008) |
| 23rd | Fr Noel Stanton (1990) ; Fr Tom Nicholson MSC (2015) |
| 24th | Fr Roland Pasensie (2010) |
| 25th | Fr John Walsh (1979) |
| 26th | Fr Aquinas O’Carroll OFM Cap (1983) |
| 28th | Fr Edward Mansfield (1982) |
| 30th | Fr John Roche MSC (1992) : Fr Bernard Jansen (2005) |
October
| 1st | Fr Justin Feeny CSsR (1978) |
| 2nd | Fr Eustace Burke OFM Cap (1949): ABp Celestine Damiano (3rd Apostolic Delegate) (1967) |
| 3rd | Fr Michael de Bary SDB (1927) : Fr Keith Lambert (2002) |
| 4th | Fr Ronald Grace OFM Cap (1984) |
| 5th | Fr Joseph Ord CSsR (1951) |
| 6th | Fr Jerome Aranes (2022) |
| 7th | Fr Gerhard Kues (1991) |
| 8th | Mgr John Galvin VG; PA (1978) |
| 10th | Abp Ambrose de Paoli (former Apostolic Nuncio) (2008) ; Fr Alastair Shaw CSsR (2018) |
| 11th | Fr Denis Corboy SJ (1911) : Fr Wilhelmus Michels (1982) : Fr Mattie Ahern SDB (2004) |
| 12th | Fr Anthony Jansen OP (1977) |
| 13th | Fr Frederick Barni SDB (1939) |
| 14th | Fr Michael Ward (1991): Fr James Cowan (1880): Fr Daniel McCluskey SDB (1981) |
| 15th | Fr James Johnson CSsR (1963) |
| 16th | Fr Francis Boat SDB (1967) |
| 18th | Fr Leo Peze SDB (1915) |
| 20th | Fr Patrick Daly SJ (1945) |
| 21st | Fr Leo Kirk CSsR (1963) : Fr Wilfred Ahern OFM Cap (2004) |
| 22nd | Fr Louis Stubbs (1981) |
| 24th | Fr Jan Westfal S.Chr (1999) |
| 25th | Dcn Leslie Davadoss (1987) ; Dcn Paul Adams (2019) |
| 26th | Fr Vincent O’Gorman SDB (1988) |
| 27th | Fr Edward Rowles (1964) |
| 28th | Fr Lambertus Prinsen (1840): Fr Lorenzo Maletto IMC (1980) |
| 29th | Fr Gerald Henegan MHM (1939): Fr Bernard Costello (1974). Fr Joseph Duffy CSsR (1994) |
| 31st | Dcn William Walbrugh (2006) : Fr Albert Ripberger ISch (2008) |
November
| 3rd | Fr Patrick Thornton (2005) |
| 4th | Fr Robert Marz SDB (1966) |
| 5th | Abp Joseph McGeough (4th Apostolic Delegate) (1970) |
| 6th | Oswin Magrath OP (1998) |
| 9th | Fr Michael Dahille (1918) |
| 11th | Fr Cyril Scott-Parkin (1996) |
| 14th | Fr Edward Walsh (1952) |
| 16th | Fr Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap (1989) |
| 17th | Fr Patrick Peart (1964) : Fr Billy D’Arcy (2007) : Dcn Alfred Winnaar (2011) |
| 18th | Fr Marcellus O’Carroll OFM Cap (1980) |
| 19th | Fr Thomas Giltinan SDB (1935) |
| 22nd | Fr Edward Jackson SDB (1975) : Fr John Dempsey CSsR (1994) |
| 24th | Fr Charles O’Rourke (1927) : Fr Frederick Stubbings SDB (1975) Dcn Edward de Mink (1996) |
| 25th | Fr Francis Ketterer SJ (1956) |
| 28th | Fr Frederick McConvery OFM Cap (1968): Fr Jarlath Gough OFM Cap (1983) |
| 29th | Fr William Doran (1998) |