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28Aug

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India, Profiles, Sad But True

Jacob Mar Barnabas, Bishop

Rev Dr Jacob Mar Barnabas, metropolitan of Gurgaon-Delhi diocese of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, passed away in Delhi on Thursday. He was 60. The metropolitan was under treatment for post-Covid illnesses for the past four months. Dr Jacob Mar Barnabas was born on December 3, 1960, to Geevarghese and Rachel of Aerath family at Ranni in Pathanamthitta. After his schooling, he joined the Order of the Imitation of Christ in 1975. He has ordained a priest on October 2, 1986. The new priest was given charge of religious formation for pre-novices. He then went to Academia Alfonsiana, Rome, for higher studies in Moral Theology. During his priestly ministry, he held various positions including Superior, Bethany Ashram, Pune, Rector, BVP, Pune, Professor and Head of the Department of P...

16Jul

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Bolivia, Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Eugenio Scarpellini, bishop

Bishop Eugenio Scarpellini of El Alto, Bolivia, died on July 15, 2020, after contracting COVID-19. He was 66. The Italian-born bishop was remembered by colleagues as a tireless promoter of missions, who worked to improve relations with the government and intervened to defuse tensions in 2019 after protests over election irregularities rocked the South American country. Scarpellini was hospitalized in El Alto — situated at an elevation of more than 13,000 feet next to the capital, La Paz — but on July 15, he twice suffered "cardiac arrest, and the doctors were unable to do anything." Scarpellini was born Jan. 8, 1954, in Verdellino, Italy, and ordained in 1978. He was drawn to the priesthood at a young age, telling his parents at his first Communion, &qu...

30Jun

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Kenya, Noteworthy, Profiles

Elisha Juma, Bishop

Elisha Juma, the Kenya Assemblies of God (KAG) Tudor bishop, died from Covid-19 on June 29 at Mombasa Hospital. His death came barely three months after the cleric’s eldest son died of the same disease in the US. The family said he had been admitted to the hospital for some time over high blood pressure and diabetes. The family was still coming to terms with the death of the bishop’s son Peter Juma, 35, who died in the United States on March 28. He had worked as a paramedic at St Catherine of Siena Hospital and last visited Kenya over the Christmas period last year. Close family members said the bishop had expressed hope that the remains of his son were buried at a place the family could have an opportunity to pay their final respects after the pandemic. According to the family’s...

19May

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High Profilers, Profiles, United Kingdom

Vincent Malone, bishop

Vincent Malone ‑ an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Liverpool ‑ died on 18 May 2020 at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, after testing positive for COVID-19. Malone was born in Liverpool, and was ordained to the priesthood on 18 September 1955, in Old Swan. On 13 May 1989, he was appointed Titular Bishop of Abora and Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 3 July from Archbishop Derek Worlock, with Bishops Kevin O'Connor and John Rawsthorne serving as co-consecrators. In 2003 Malone wrote a contribution for Healing Priesthood: Women's Voices Worldwide, in which he argued that women should be allowed to hear confessions and absolve penit...

29Apr

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Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Silas Silvius Njiru, bishop

Silas Silvius Njiru –a Kenyan Roman Catholic bishop passed away after contracting Covid-19 on 28 April 2020. Njiru was born in Kenya and was ordained to the priesthood in 1955. He served as titular bishop of Maturba and auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Meru, Kenya, in 1975 and 1976. Njiru then served as bishop of the Meru Diocese from 1976 to 2004. Njiru died on 28 April 2020 in Rivoli, Piedmont, Italy from COVID-19.

16Apr

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Congo, High Profilers, Profiles

Gérard Mulumba Kalemba, bishop

Gérard Mulumba Kalemba ‑ a Congolese prelate of the Catholic Church – died on 15 April 2020 due to COVID-19 in Kinshasa. He was 82. Born in Kananga, Mulumba Kalemba was ordained to the priesthood in 1967. He was appointed bishop of Mweka in 1989, serving until his retirement in 2017. His brother, Étienne Tshisekedi, and nephew, Félix Tshisekedi, both served as President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On 15 April 2020, during the DR Congo coronavirus pandemic, Mulumba Kalemba died due to COVID-19 in Kinshasa. He was 82.

13Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United States

Bishop Bruce Edward Davis, Shift Leader

Bishop Bruce Edward Davis – a Shift Leader at Central State Hospital Forensics, Milledgeville, Georgia – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 13 April, 2020. Davis was 57 years old. “He was just one of those people who loved people, because he was a Godly man,” said Milledgeville Mayor Mary Parham-Copelan. “What you saw with Bishop Davis was the kind of man he actually was in our community — always willing to help someone out in any way that he could and to offer them encouragement.” The mayor said “I was devastatingly shocked to hear when I heard,” Parham-Copelan told The Union-Recorder during a telephone interview Monday afternoon. “I had just seen him and at Walgreens on North Columbia Street about three weeks ago and he hollowed at me.” “He was one of the m...

12Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Simon Barrington-Ward, bishop

Simon Barrington-Ward, a bishop in the Church of England, died on 11 April 2020 after suffering from coronavirus. He was 89. Barrington-Ward was the son of Robert Barrington-Ward, who served as editor of The Times, and Margaret Adele Barrington-Ward. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, from which he graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA), and Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab.). After service as a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force, he taught at theological colleges before being ordained: he was made a deacon at Michaelmas 1956 (30 September), by Gordon Walsh, Assistant Bishop of Ely, at Ely Cathedral and ordained priest the following year. He was the General Secretary of Church Missionary Society (CMS), from 1975 to 1985. From 1985 to 1997, he served...