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Clergy Necrology
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Deceased diocesan priests & deacons listed by date of death.
Eternal rest grant unto them, Lord.
May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace.
04/06/1945 Father F. Joseph Bilstein 07/02/1945 Father Leo J. Dufrane 02/18/1946 Father Florian DelFosse 07/18/1946 Father Francis J. McAuliffe 03/10/1948 Father Nicholas Keller 11/04/1948 Father William B. Hordeman 11/18/1948 Father Joseph C. Adler 10/23/1949 Father Gustave Hottenroth 07/09/1951 Father Aquinas Knoff 02/10/1952 Father John Hosinski 08/21/1952 Father Paul A. Anderson 10/21/1952 Father F. Joseph Mutch 12/31/1952 Father Edward J. Freiburger 11/26/1954 Father D. Leo Faurote 11/06/1955 Father Joseph A. Suelzer 05/14/1956 Father John A. McCarthy 12/16/1956 Father Hubert H. Kueches 11/20/1957 Bishop John G. Bennett 04/30/1957 Msgr. Michael Aichinger 01/27/1959 Father Edward Dempsey 04/04/1960 Msgr. Michael Chapman 08/09/1960 Father John J. Harbrecht 03/02/1961 Father James E. Quinn 07/22/1961 Father John E. Dillon 08/22/1962 Msgr. Thomas Travers 10/13/1962 Father Francis H. Liebert 12/10/1963 Msgr. Robert J. Halpin 04/04/1964 Father Ambrose A. Kohne 06/07/1964 Msgr. Felix T. Seroczynski 06/24/1964 Father Edward T. Fallon 06/30/1964 Father Joseph A. Lynn 07/27/1964 Father Matthew N. Drennan 05/19/1965 Msgr. Leo A. Breitenbach 11/29/1965 Father James M. Fitzgerald 12/12/1966 Father James B. Thornton 03/30/1968 Father Joseph C. Keating 06/21/1968 Father J. Edward Holland 09/05/1968 Msgr. Aloysius Copenolle 09/21/1968 Father Jerome C. Walski 11/19/1970 Father James H. Moran 01/22/1971 Father Robert L. Gerth 04/09/1972 Msgr. Paul A. Welsh 08/05/1972 Father Otto A. Peters 03/15/1973 Father James H. Leah 07/30/1973 Father Robert W. Sorg 03/14/1974 Father Charles W. Muller 05/29/1974 Father M. Joseph McDonnell 05/08/1976 Father Leo A. Scheetz 04/10/1977 Msgr. John P. Schall 05/23/1977 Msgr. Francis G. Kienly 03/13/1978 Father Francis J. Meehan 10/23/1978 Father Leo P. McHale 11/12/1978 Father Peter VanTiel 03/24/1979 Father Charles J. A. Scholl 05/09/1979 Father Michael A. Reineck 05/12/1980 Father George T. Loner 06/13/1980 Father James B. McKeown 09/09/1981 Father John P. Cunningham 01/25/1984 Bishop George A. Fulcher 01/24/1985 Msgr. Edgar J. Cyr 09/05/1985 Msgr. Theodore J. Hammes 11/10/1986 Father Joseph R. Ackerman 07/04/1988 Father Richard A. Smith 12/26/1988 Father Costabile R. Guariglia 05/17/1989 Father Francis J. Niesen 06/04/1989 Father Donald J. Tracey 01/05/1991 Father Cornelius J. Kelly 03/07/1991 Bishop Raymond J. Gallagher 03/28/1991 Msgr. Henry F. Ward 10/18/1991 Father Thomas F. Timmerman 09/18/1992 Msgr. Emil A. Schweier 10/23/1992 Father David D. Clifford 05/08/1993 Father Roy T. Fennessy 07/31/1993 Father Roderick H. Berns 08/05/1993 Father Ronald O. Maupin 08/17/1993 Father Raymond H. Wieber 03/21/1994 Father John W. Bouvier 06/21/1995 Father Edward J. Stone 06/06/1996 Father Richard A. Cooley 10/01/1996 Father George B. Lanning 09/29/1997 Father Duane M. Craycraft 12/04/1997 Father Frederick J. Perry 12/10/1997 Rev. Mr. Bruce Koenig 01/16/1998 Father Thomas O. Heilman 06/17/1998 John Joseph Cardinal Carberry 09/07/1998 Msgr. Arthur A. Sego 03/08/1999 Father Francis M. Scheck 09/06/2000 Msgr. Sylvester P. Klein 12/01/2000 Father Bernard J. Carr 04/30/2001 Father Leo J. Haigerty 06/09/2001 Father Leo A. Piguet 10/16/2001 Msgr. Maurice D. Foley 07/24/2002 Father A. Leonard Reemmer 09/18/2002 Father Rick G. Tucker 05/27/2003 Father Robert J. Fosselman 10/06/2003 Father William R. Grady 03/01/2004 Father Fred A. Schroeder 03/10/2004 Father Fred H. Gschwind 04/22/2004 Father Jack F. Trippel 12/05/2004 Father Kenneth T. Raczek 08/04/2005 Father Harold E. Weller 12/21/2005 Father Charles L Kline 05/22/2006 Deacon Albert McConahay 08/28/2006 Father Carl E. Eckert 12/15/2006 Father Bernard Lutkenhoff 03/11/2007 Father Donald E. Hardebeck 04/14/2007 Father Anthony J. Prosen 09/02/2008 Father Gordon P. Wagoner 10/13/2008 Father Richard E. Miller 12/15/2008 Father Victor P. Schott 08/23/2009 Father Charles W. Remaklus 02/13/2010 Father Thomas J. Zimmer 02/15/2010 Father Douglas M. McCormack 03/06/2010 Father John A. Bach 09/16/2010 Father Joseph E. Jacob 11/23/2010 Father John C. Schultz 12/06/2010 Father Donald B. Vernon 04/19/2011 Father Melvin J. Bennett 06/01/2011 Father Maurice R. Miller 11/20/2012 Father Jeldo J. Schiavone 02/15/2013 Father Louis S. Heitz 02/28/2013 Deacon James MacDougall 10/28/2013 Father James T. Keane 11/15/2013 Msgr. Fred E. Potthoff 11/24/2013 Father David M. Douglas 06/06/2014 Father Barry R. Gross 07/03/2014 Father Joseph J. Bruetsch 05/07/2015 Father Joseph R. Ruffing 05/24/2015 Father Edward S. Matuszak 07/19/2015 Father Donald J. Eder 03/14/2017 Father Edward F. Dhondt 04/06/2017 Father William R. Vath 08/27/2017 Father John Zahn 09/29/2017 Father Herbert R. Woolson 02/27/2018 Father George Askar 06/27/2018 Father Michael A. Ondo 07/02/2018 Father Joseph W. Grace 10/22/2018 Father Ambrose M. Ziegler 12/03/2018 Father Philip Haslinger 12/09/2018 Father Timothy Kroeger 06/10/2019 Father James Goodrum 8/18/2019 Deacon Domingo Castillo 09/27/2019 Father Thomas Fox 10/11/2020 Father Christopher Roberts 03/03/2021 Father James R. Bates 07/10/2021 Father Gerald J. Borawski 11/10/2021 Father Alejandro M. Paternoster 12/17/2021 Father Philip T. Bowers 6/14/2022 Father W. Michael Kettron, J.C.D. 8/21/2023 Father Robert J. Bernotas 11/18/2024 Father Richard Puetz 1/6/2025 Bishop William L. Higi 2/8/2025 Deacon John R. Jezierski 6/2/2025 Deacon Ronald Morrow