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[DevonDeathTrip]

I have recently unearthed several ecclesatical leaders, who are very aged or in frail health. Sadly, none of them are really famous enough to qualify for their own thread, but I would think most of them should get an obit in the UK.

It has been a spiritually enriching experience, reading about the exploits of fine fellows below. Feel free to add any men of God I might have missed:

Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria 17th March 2012
Archbishop Christodoulos 28th January 2008
Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria 6th November 2012
Whakahuihui Vercoe of Rotorua 13th November 2007
Cahal Cardinal Daly 31st December 2009
Pavle, Patriarch of Serbia 15th November 2009
The Most Reverend and Most Holy Father, His Beatitude Ignatius IV, Patriarch of Antioch, the Great City of God, of Syria, Lebanon, Arabia, Cilicia, Mesopotamia and all the East 5th December 2012

I predict they will all be dead within 2 3 4 5 6 years.

[Gunjaman5000]

Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, at 77 years of age, would appear to be old enough to be considered aged and has a heart condition. That and he's only one angry Sunni away from meeting his maker.

Get yourself on a CIA shitlist and have a look at his website, it looks fun.

[Razor Boy]

Gunjaman5000, on Jun 22 2007, 12:03 PM, said:

Get yourself on a CIA shitlist and have a look at his website, it looks fun.

Bugger thats me banned from Disneyland Florida

Razor

[Octopus of Odstock]

2 more religious men have just joined the heavenly throng - the former Archbishop of Lusaka and the Bishop of Norwich

Although I note these are not on DDT's list, maybe one of those that IS on his list, will be happy to oblige & create a holy trinity of deaths.

After all, they killed 6 clerics in one day in Iraq the other day....

[DevonDeathTrip]

I forgot to add His Holiness Alexy II Patriarch of Russia. He received medical treatment in Switzerland earlier in the year and despite the positive spin, er, spun by his PR crew, people don't usually go abroad for medical treatment unless they're pretty poorly.

[Youth in Asia]

Ratzinger to go within 3 years.

And Robert Runcie.

[Octopus of Odstock]

Youth in Asia, on Jun 27 2007, 12:37 AM, said:

Ratzinger to go within 3 years.

And Robert Runcie.

If the 2nd prediction comes true, I'd be extremely surprised. Not least because Runcie DIED 7 years ago...

[Monoclinic]

Octopus of Odstock, on Jun 27 2007, 08:26 PM, said:

Youth in Asia, on Jun 27 2007, 01:00 AM, said:

Paul Hunter died?

Yes, last year. It was widely covered in the news, and we had a fair few ranters here.

Robert Runcie died?

[DevonDeathTrip]

Archbishop Desmond Tutu probably deserves inclusion as well. He was first diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1996 and last month he announced it has returned.

Statistically speaking you are more likely to die of cancer the second time around...

[Captain Oates]

DevonDeathTrip, on Jun 28 2007, 11:46 PM, said:

Archbishop Desmond Tutu probably deserves inclusion as well. He was first diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1996 and last month he announced it has returned.

Statistically speaking you are more likely to die of cancer the second time around...

I don't have a TV but I happened to be in front of a set last December 31st and saw a New Year interview with the Archbish in which he talked about his cancer having returned, albeit in a non-aggressive manner - hence my inclusion of him in one of my lists for this year.

If that is a recent picture of him in the article quoted above, he has certainly lost some weight since the beginning of the year.

[DevonDeathTrip]

Archbishop Christodoulos's health has deteriorated, he's been in intensive care with "fluid in the digestive tract" to add to his woes. His Beatitude could be beaten before too long.

[DevonDeathTrip]

Archbishop Christodoulos is off to Miami for a liver transplant.

[DevonDeathTrip]

Bishop Philippus Petrus Zhao Zhendong of Xuanhua, the leader of 8 million Chinese Catholics, has died at the age of 87.

[Canadian Paul]

Longest serving priest in the Church of England dies at age 98.

[Octopus of Odstock]

Primate of Sudan seriously ill.

[DevonDeathTrip]

Patriarch Teoctist, head of the Romanian Church has just died.

[DevonDeathTrip]

Father Sir Hugh Barrett-Lennard. Not terribly famous, but his Telegraph obit is highly entertaining.

Quote

"..the Pope of Eigg" was in the habit of organising hunts for an imaginary haggis, which he encouraged with high-pitched shrieks like a peacock.."

[Banshees Scream]

I think Father Sir Hugh Barrett-Lennard did more at the Oratory then roll the woman 'who had no cloths on' in a rug. When they were done she probably rolled him in the rug.

[DevonDeathTrip]

France's most senior Catholic prelate, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, has died in Paris at the age of 80

[DevonDeathTrip]

The former Archbishop of Wales, the Most Rev Alwyn Rice Jones, has died at the age of 73.