Praying for our deceased priests
Fr. Granahan was born on October 16, 1942 in Letterbrick, Co. Mayo, Ireland. Father Granahan attended St. Peter’s Seminary in Ireland and was ordained June 3, 1966, for the Diocese of St. Augustine. He served at St. James Parish (1966 – 1967); Bishop Moore High School (1968 – 1969); Father L… Read more
ST. AUGUSTINE | Msgr. William Mullally was born Oct. 16, 1891, in Union City, New Jersey. He attended St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore and was ordained May 31, 1917 for the Diocese of St. Augustine. He served at St. Peter’s in Deland (1917 – 1923) and as pastor of St. Paul’s in Daytona Beach… Read more
Father William O’Farrell was born March 28, 1913, in Lissanurlan, Longford, Ireland. He attended St. Patrick’s Seminary in County Kildare, Ireland and was ordained Dec. 24, 1939, for the Diocese of St. Augustine.He served at St. Mary Parish in Miami in 1943; Little Flower Church in Coral Gab… Read more
WINTER HAVEN | Father Vincent Smith was born Nov. 5, 1926, in Philadelphia. He attended St. John’s Seminary in Arkansas and was ordained for the Diocese of St. Augustine May 13, 1956. He served as Assistant Editor of the Florida Catholic newspaper (1956–1957); Executive Editor of the Flori… Read more
Msgr. Arboleda was born June 7, 1928, in Tarso, Antioquia, Colombia and was raised in Colombia. He attended Jericó Seminary in Jericó, Colombia. He was ordained on November 27, 1955 for the Diocese of Jericó, Colombia.Msgr. Arboleda moved to Central Florida and became incardinated into th… Read more
CLERMONT | Father Stephen Phillips was born April 1, 1956, in Jacksonville. He attended St. Mary of the Lakes Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois, and was ordained August 29, 1987. He served at Our Saviour (1987–1990); St. Joseph in Winter Haven (1990–1991); Divine Mercy in Merritt Island (1991–… Read more
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PORT CHARLOTTE | Father Robert (Bob) Mattingly, a longtime pastor at St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish in Port Charlotte, died Jan. 7, 2022. He was 82. Read more
Karen Farrell Hagen, 73, died suddenly in Orlando on Wednesday, August 18, 2021. Born in New York, New York, on March 19, 1948, she grew up in Queens and attended St. Michael Academy in Manhattan. For over twenty years, she worked as a BOCES school district social worker while living in Nort… Read more
ORLANDO | Father Hugo Londono, who served at parishes throughout Florida, died Nov. 29, 2021. He was 85. Read more
WINTER PARK | Deacon Robert Kreps, who served St. Margaret Mary Parish in Winter Park, died Dec. 7, 2021, surrounded by his family. He was 77. Read more
BALTIMORE | A funeral Mass was offered Nov. 23 at St. Peter Claver Church in West Baltimore for Beverly A. Carroll, a social justice advocate who spent her life raising her voice for African American Catholics in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the United States and the world. Read more
Jesuit Father Francis R. Brou, SJ, died Oct. 19, 2021, in Grand Coteau, Louisiana. He was 92 years old, a Jesuit for 74 years and a priest for 60 years. Read more
MIAMI | Word spread quickly among alumni of St. Thomas Aquinas High School that Father Guy Fenger was dying. Read more
James E. Quinn, Commander, U.S. Navy ret., 87, Chapel Hill, NC, passed away on October 7, 2021 at his home after a brief but sudden illness. Read more
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Sister Mary Ngoc-Minh Vu, ICM. Sister Mary Ngoc-Minh Vu was born March 19, 1937 in Vietnam. She entered the Sister of Incarnation-Consecration-Mission on January 19, 1950. Her religious formation and life was "underground" due to the repressions of t… Read more
It took a while for Father Andrzej “Andrew” Pietraszko to find his special calling. Ordained a priest in 2003 for the Archdiocese of Miami, he served at parishes and as a high school chaplain before discovering his true talent: ministering to the sick. Read more
