Óscar González-Quevedo, Spanish-born Brazilian Jesuit priest and parapsychologist, Died at 88

Father Óscar González-Quevedo Bruzón was born on December 15, 1930, in Madrid and died on January 9, 2019.

He was a Spanish-born Brazilian Jesuit priest.

González-Quevedo was an investigator in the field of parapsychology. He came from a deep Catholic family.

González-Quevedo  was the Founder and Director of the Latin American Center of Parapsychology, located in São Paulo, Brazil, where he worked on a daily basis, except while traveling domestically or throughout the world, teaching and conducting all sort of conferences and workshops on parapsychology. 

He read Latin, Greek, Hebrew, English, French and Italian, besides being fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Óscar González-Quevedo passed away  88 years old.

Lamin Sanneh, Gambian-born American professor, Died at 76

Lamin Sanneh was born on May 24, 1942, in Gambia and died on January 6, 2019.

He was the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and Professor of History at Yale University.

Following his studies at the University of Birmingham and the Near East School of Theology, Beirut, he earned his doctorate in Islamic History at the University of London.

Lamin Sanneh authored many books and articles on the relationship between Islam and Christianity (titles include Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in "Secular" Britain, The Crown and the Turban: Muslims and West African Pluralism, and Piety and Power: Muslims and Christians in West Africa).

He converted to Christianity from Islam and was a practicing Roman Catholic He suffered a stroke and died on January 6, 2019. Sandra Sanneh his wife, is a professor of isiZulu at Yale University and their son, Kelefa Sanneh, writes about culture for The New

Yorker. Lamin Sanneh passed away at 76 years old.

Ronald C. Read, British-born Canadian mathematician, Died at 94

Ronald Cedric Read was born on December 19, 1924, in Croydon, England and died on January 7, 2019.

He was a British-born Canadian mathematician.

He served as a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Read wrote many books and papers, primarily on enumeration of graphs, graph isomorphism, chromatic polynomials, and particularly, the use of computers in graph-theoretical research. Most of his later work was done later in Waterloo. He earned his Ph.D. (1959) in graph theory from the University of London.

Read's hobby was the making of string figures and is the inventor of the Olympic Flag String Figure on YouTube.

Read was also an accomplished musician and played many instruments including violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, guitar, lute, and many early music instruments, some of which he also built.

Ronald C. Read passed away at 94 years old.

Armando Bortolaso, Italian-born Syrian Roman Catholic prelate, Died at 92

Armando Bortolaso was born on August 17, 1926 in Italy and died on January 8, 2019.

He was an Italian Roman catholic titular bishop.

Bortolaso was ordained to the priesthood in 1953.

Bortolaso served as titular bishop of Rapahamae and was bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo, Syria, fom 1992 to 2002.

Bortolaso passed away at 92 years old.

José Belvino do Nascimento, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Died at 86

José Belvino do Nascimento was born on December 29, 1932 and died on January 8, 2019.

He was a Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop.

He was born in Brazil and was ordained to the priesthood during 1956.

Belvino do Nascimento was appointed as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Itumbiara, Brazil, from 1981 to 1987.

He then served as coadjutor bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Patos de Minas, Brazil, from 1987 to 1989.

Then he served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Divinópolis , Brazil, from 1989 to 2009.

José Belvino do Nascimento passed away at 86 years old.

Óscar González Quevedo, Spanish-born Brazilian Jesuit priest and parapsychologist, Died at 88

Father Óscar González Quevedo was born on December 15, 1930, in Madrid and died on January 9, 2019.

He was a Spanish-born Brazilian Jesuit priest.

Quevedo was an investigator in the field of parapsychology.

Quevedo was the Founder and Director of the Latin American Center of Parapsychology, located in São Paulo, Brazil, where he worked on a daily basis, except while traveling domestically or throughout the world, teaching and conducting all sort of conferences and workshops on parapsychology.

He read Latin, Greek, Hebrew, English, French and Italian, besides being fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Óscar González Quevedo passed away at 88 years old.

Joseph Lawson Howze, American Roman Catholic prelate, Died at 95

Joseph Lawson E. Howze was born on August 30, 1923, in Daphne, Alabama and died on January 9, 2019.

He was an African-American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Howze was appointed as the first Bishop of Biloxi from 1977 to 2001.

Following his expression an interest in the Priesthood, he was accepted to study for the priesthood at Christ the King Seminary at St. Bonaventure University in New York (receiving his Doctor of Divinity in 1959), and was ordained for the Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina, on May 7, 1959.

Howze served as a pastor in Asheville.

He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Natchez-Jackson, Mississippi, and Titular Bishop of Maxita by Pope Paul VI, on November 8, 1972.

Joseph Lawson Howze pased away at 95 years old.