The Year of Our Lord 2026

Necrology

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Date	Age	Bishop	Title
1 Jan	80.9	Serafim Shyngo-Ya-Hombo, O.F.M. Cap. †	Bishop Emeritus of Mbanza Congo, Angola
3 Jan	89.2	Hernán Giraldo Jaramillo †	Bishop Emeritus of Buga, Colombia
5 Jan	96.4	Paolo Gillet †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Albano, Italy
6 Jan	92.0	Raffaele Nogaro †	Bishop Emeritus of Caserta, Italy
7 Jan	81.6	Domenico Graziani †	Archbishop Emeritus of Crotone-Santa Severina, Italy
9 Jan	96.2	Vincenzo Zarri †	Bishop Emeritus of Forli-Bertinoro, Italy
12 Jan	78.3	José Eduardo Velásquez Tarazona †	Bishop Emeritus of Huaraz, Peru
16 Jan	101.1	Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña, O.F.M. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Zamora en Ecuador
16 Jan	92.4	Julio César Terán Dutari, S.J. †	Bishop Emeritus of Ibarra, Ecuador
18 Jan	78.8	John Okeoghene Afareha †	Bishop Emeritus of Warri, Nigeria
20 Jan	95.4	Thadeu Gomes Canellas †	Bishop Emeritus of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
22 Jan	76.3	Pedro Pablo Elizondo Cárdenas, L.C. †	Bishop Emeritus of Cancún-Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México
25 Jan	97.9	Robert Joseph Banks †	Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
25 Jan	93.9	Dominic Kokkat, C.S.T. †	Bishop Emeritus of Gorakhpur (Syro-Malabar), India
30 Jan	94.3	Flavien Joseph Melki †	Curial Bishop Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Syrian), Lebanon
31 Jan	93.0	Maximilian Aichern, O.S.B. †	Bishop Emeritus of Linz, Austria
2 Feb	75.0	Miguel Angel Alba Díaz †	Bishop Emeritus of La Paz en la Baja California Sur, México
4 Feb	99.0	Julian Andrzej Antoni Wojtkowski †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Warmia, Poland
5 Feb	86.6	Antonio Arregui Yarza †	Archbishop Emeritus of Guayaquil, Ecuador
6 Feb	94.8	Pietro Gabrielli, S.D.B. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Méndez, Ecuador
8 Feb	80.7	Kazimierz Wielikosielec, O.P. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Pinsk, Belarus
9 Feb	79.0	Riccardo Fontana †	Bishop Emeritus of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy

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