NEW YORK (AP) The Catholic priest who for decades had been one of the Vatican’s top experts on the Latin language died on Christmas Day at a nursing home in Milwaukee. A United Methodist Church bishop in the West African nation of Sierra Leone died in a traffic accident in August as he was engaged in efforts to resolve the denomination’s conflicts over inclusion of LGBTQ people. Back in March, a 49-year-old priest in Brooklyn became the first Catholic cleric in the United States killed by the coronavirus. They were among many religious leaders some admired worldwide, others beloved only locally who died in 2020. Here are some of them.
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Faith leaders around the world who died in 2020
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 file photo, Rev. Joseph Lowery speaks at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr., spoke, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
New York - The Catholic priest who for decades had been one of the Vatican’s top experts on the Latin language died on Christmas Day at a nursing home in Milwaukee. A United Methodist Church bishop in the West African nation of Sierra Leone died in a traffic accident in August as he was engaged in efforts to resolve the denomination’s conflicts over inclusion of LGBTQ people. Back in March, a 49-year-old priest in Brooklyn became the first Catholic cleric in the United States killed by the coronavirus. They were among many religious leaders some admired worldwide, others beloved only locally who died in 2020. Here are some of them.
Six nuns at Greenfield convent, educators and care givers, die of COVID-19. //end headline wrapper ?>Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee
From left, photos of Sister Mary Francele Sherburne, Sister Josephine Seier, Sister Bernadette Kelter, Sister Mary Regine Collins, Sister Marie June Skender and Sister Annelda Holtkamp can be seen inside of a chapel in Milwaukee. The six died from complications of COVID-19. Angela Major/WPR
At Our Lady of the Angels Convent, nuns gather to play cards, create art and pray the rosary.
The women who live here come from two communities: School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND) and School Sisters of St. Francis (SSSF). The Greenfield home opens its doors to nuns who need specialized memory care former educators and caretakers who have dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.