ONLY THESE SIX ARE STILL ALIVE.....VATICAN II COUNCIL (1962 – 1965).

 

ONLY THESE SIX ARE STILL ALIVE.....VATICAN II COUNCIL (1962 – 1965).

Only SIX out of over 2,500 Council Fathers 

(PATRIARCHS, CARDINALS, ARCHBISHOPS and BISHOPS) are still ALIVE.

THEY ARE: 

1. Francis Cardinal ARINZE (90),

Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri–Segni and Prefect Emeritus of Congregation for Divine 

Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (Nigeria) 🇳🇬

2. Archbishop Alphonsus MATHIAS (94),

Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore (India) 🇮🇳

3. Archbishop Victorinus YOUN KONG-HI, S.T.D, D.D (98),

Archbishop Emeritus of Gwangju (South Korea) 🇰🇷

4. Bishop Daniel Alphonse Omer VERSTRAETE, O.M.I. (98),

Bishop Emeritus of Klerksdorp (South Africa) 🇿🇦

5. Bishop José de Jesús SAHAGÚN DE LA PARRA (100),

Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas (Mexico) 🇲🇽

6. Bishop Luigi BETTAZZI (99),

Bishop Emeritus of Ivrea (Italy) 🇮🇹

Second Vatican Council, also called Vatican II, was the 21st ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, announced and convoked on October 11, 1962 by St. Pope John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli) and concluded by St. Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) on December 8, 1965.

Collected by

Fr. Nicholas Macedon OCD, Church Historian