Requiescat in Pace: Notable Departures of 2019

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let the perpetual light shine upon them.

May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Amen.

Memory Eternal!

From the National Catholic Register

Jan. 3 — Msgr. William Stetson, Opus Dei priest
Jan. 9 — Bishop Joseph Howze, 95, of Biloxi, Mississippi (1977-2001)
Jan. 17 — Father Anthony Watsham, 94, Zimbabwean entomologist
Jan. 22 — Bishop John Smith, 83, of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida (1991-1995), and Trenton, New Jersey (1997-2010)
Jan. 24 — Cardinal Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, 89, of Spain
Feb. 2 — Auxiliary Bishop Walter Edyvean, 80, of Boston (2001-2014)
Feb. 6 — Father Edwin Barnes, 84, British Catholic priest and former Anglican bishop
Feb. 11 — Msgr. Eulade Rudahunga, 97, Rwandan priest and genocide survivor
Feb. 15 — Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Costello, 89, of Syracuse, New York (1978-2004)
Feb. 24 — Father Lothar Zenetti, 93, German theologian and hymnist (Segne dieses Kind)
Feb. 28 — Bishop Elliot Thomas, 92, of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands (1993-1999)
March 10 — Auxiliary Bishop René Arnold Valero, 88, of Brooklyn (1980-2005)
March 14 — Cardinal Godfried Danneels, 85, of Belgium
March 20 — Bishop Joseph Adamec, 83, of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania (1987-2011)
March 21 — Bishop Francis Quinn, 97, of Sacramento, California (1980-1993)
April 6 — Auxiliary Bishop George Rueger, 89, of Worcester, Massachusetts (1987-2005)
April 12 — Bishop Ronald Herzog, 76, of Alexandria, Virginia (2005-2017)
April 17 — Jesuit Father James Schall, 91, U.S. priest, teacher and writer
May 7 — Jean Vanier, 90, Canadian philosopher, theologian and humanitarian, founder of L’Arche
May 9 — Auxiliary Bishop David Arias Pérez, 89, of Newark, New Jersey (1983-2004)
May 12 — Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, 98, patriarch of Antioch (1986-2011)
May 25 — Bishop Joseph Galante, 80, of Camden, New Jersey (2004-2013)
June 5 — Cardinal Elio Sgreccia, 90, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life (2005-2008)
June 13 — Bishop Pierre DuMaine, 87, of San Jose, California (1981-1999)
June 17 — Father Michał Łos, 31, Polish priest for 25 days who was ordained in his hospital bed
June 18 — Bishop Stephen Blaire, 77, of Stockton, California (1999-2018)
July 11 — Auxiliary Bishop Robert Christian, 70, of San Francisco (since 2018)
July 11 — Vincent Lambert, 42, who was at the center of a medical court battle in France
July 13 — Cardinal Paolo Sardi, 84, of Italy
July 14 — Bishop Paul Zipfel, 83, of Bismarck, North Dakota (1996-2011)
July 19 — Bishop John Elya, 90, Melkite bishop of the Newton Eparchy (1993-2004)
July 21 — Cardinal José Estepa Llaurens, 93, of Spain
July 25 — Father M. Owen Lee, 89, music scholar
July 26 — Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, 82, of Cuba
Aug. 11 — Cardinal Sergio Obeso Rivera, 87, of Mexico
Aug. 29 — Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, 95, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches (1991-2000)
Sept. 3 — Cardinal José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, 100, of Colombia
Sept. 4 — Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, 96, of France
Sept. 22 — Archbishop Harry Flynn, 86, of St. Paul and Minneapolis (1995-2008)
Sept. 26 — Cardinal William Levada, 83, archbishop of Portland, Oregon (1986-1995), and San Francisco (1995-2005) and CDF prefect
Sept. 27 — Bishop John Snyder, 93, of St. Augustine, Florida (1979-2000)
Sept. 27 — Bishop John Kinney, 82, of Bismarck, North Dakota (1982-1995), and St. Cloud, Minnesota (1995-2013)
Oct. 8 — Cardinal Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, 95, of Brazil
Oct. 9 — Bishop Thomas Flanagan, 88, of San Antonio, Texas (1998-2005)
Oct. 29 — Bishop Richard Lennon, 72, of Cleveland (2006-2016)
Oct. 30 — Auxiliary Bishop Francis Irwin, 85, of Boston (1996-2009)
Oct. 31 — Bishop Roger Morin, 78, of Biloxi, Mississippi (2009-2016)
Dec. 1 — Bishop Paul Sirba, 59, of Duluth, Minnesota (since 2009)
Dec. 2 — Father Richard Rieman, 94, first Opus Dei priest from the U.S.
Dec. 30 — Cardinal Prospero Grech, 94, theologian