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Review of the year 2025: Deaths

Thursday, December 18, 2025

POPE FRANCIS died on Easter Monday, aged 88. OTHER deaths noted this year among the episcopate included those of Dr Keith Rayner, a former Primate of Australia; the Rt Revd David Vungai, a former Archbishop of Melenesia and Governor General of t...

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