Prayer for April 2nd

WEEP NOT FOR PRIESTS WHO HAVE DIED, NOR MOURN OVER THEM, FOR CHRIST DIED FOR THEM AND ROSE TO GLORY.

List of Deceased Clergy, only year of death known
List of Deceased Clergy, date of death unknown

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This is an historical record of the death of clergy in Australia for the 2nd of April:
  • 2013
    Rev Adrian Lyons SJ   Read more
  • 2012
    Rev Anthony Redden  Born 14/06/1947; Diocese of Port Pirie.
  • 2010
    Rev Walter Bernard (Bernie) Dwyer  Born 23/08/1907; Ordained 01/03/1958; Narrogin, Albany, Bunbury, Gnowangerup-Tambellup,Kojonup, Bridgetown, Lake Grace, Mandurah,Erskine, WA.
  • 2020
    Rev Bernard Melville   Read more
  • 2011
    Rev Ian Dillon SJ  Born 04/02/1926; Ordained 08/01/1958.
  • 2016
    Rev John Butcher  Born 03/02/1937; Ordained 29/06/1961 Diocese of Cairns
  • 1908
    Rev Timothy Murphy  Adelaide, Mt. Gambier etc, SA; Bendigo, Wangaratta, Shepparton, Vic
  • 1912
    Rev Charles O'Connell SJ  Sydney; Hawthorn, Vic, etc
  • 1928
    Bishop Michael O'Farrell CM  Bathurst NSW
  • 1930
    Rev Martin McNamara  Adelaide dioc
  • 1933
    Rev James Bede Kearney  Sydney dioc
  • 1936
    Rev Gerard Chester CP  Marrickville, NSW; Glen Osmond, SA
  • 1948
    Rev James Smith  Sydney dioc
  • 1950
    Rev Peter Costelloe  Archdiocese of Canberra & Goulburn
  • 1979
    Rev Wolodymar Krayewsky CSsR  Mayfield, NSW, etc
  • 1984
    Rev John Edward Grady  Narraweena, Penrith, etc, NSW
  • 1990
    Rev Joseph Robert Weaver  18 parishes in Sydney dioc, including Hoxton Park, Austral, Parramatta, Leura
  • 1998
    Rev Peter Moore  Wollongong dioc, NSW
  • 2005
    Rev Alexander Thomas Fitzpatrick OP  Melbourne; Port Pirie, SA, diocs
  • 2006
    Rev Luke Fay CSsR  Leonora, North Perth WA
  • 2006
    Rev Reginald Hynes  Moora, Wongan Hills, Trayning, Wyalkatchem, Boulder, Beverley, WA
  • 2006
    Rev Donal O'Sullivan MSC  Sydney, etc
Clergy who died in April, exact date of death unknown:
  • Rev Edward Augustine O'Dwyer OSA   Sandhurst dioc, Vic

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