Tag: obituary

Pamela Sandilands, Dowager Lady Torpichen

Fr John Salter writes: Pamela Torphichen was a devout Roman Catholic and a keen ecumenist long before it became acceptable or fashionable to be so. It was while at school at the…

Repose of Metropolitan Abba Marcos

Fr John Salter writes: Abba Marcos died on 11th May 2008 in the Hospital of Our Lady of Good Remedy while visiting Barcelona. He was born in Holland on 20th August 1923.…

Repose of Archbishop Elias Zoghby, 1912-2008

Fr John Salter writes: His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III, Melkite Greek Catholic of Antioch and All The East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem, the Bishops of the Holy Synod of the Melkite…

Repose of Joan Rutt, 3 April 1919 – 17 September 2007

Canon Richard Rutt writes: Joan`s parents, Arthur John Ford (clerk in the railway Clearing House) and Esther Paine, came from Cheddar, where Joan spent her childhood summer holidays. She was born at…

Reema Samaha

Fr John Salter writes: News has reached us via the Right Reverend Joseph Francavilla of the Melkite Greek Catholic community in the United States that Reema Damaha of the Melkite church of…

The Repose in The Lord of Sister Catherine Lucienne van den Plas

Fr John Salter writes: Visitors to the Melkite Patriarchate at Raboueh, Lebanon, will have received a warm welcome from Sister van den Plas (pictured, left, with Patriarch Maximos V and a colleague).…