CALLED TO ETERNITY
Most Rev. Lucas Abadamloora
Bishop of Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocese
The NAVRONGO-BOLGATANGA DIOCESE is sad to report the sudden death of the Bishop, Most Rev. Lucas Abadamloora, who died on the 23rd December 2009 at the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital after a very brief illness. He was 71 years old.
Most Rev. Lucas Abadamloora was elected Bishop of the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Catholic Diocese by the late Pope John Paul II on the 14th March 1994 and consecrated Bishop on the 29th June 1994. He has therefore shepherded this Diocese for nearly 16 years. He was also on his second term as President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference when he died.
Bishop Lucas Abadamloora will be deeply missed by the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocese, his surviving mother and the rest of their family and the entire Catholic Church of Ghana.
The funeral arrangements are as follows:
Friday, 15th January 2010:
à Wake-keeping at the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bolgatanga at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, 16th January:
à Funeral Mass at the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bolgatanga at 10:00 a.m.
à Burial in the Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Basilica, Navrongo
May His Soul Rest In Perfect Peace
Letter from Bishop Robert Morlino of the Diocese of Madison
Diocesan Administrator and
Diocese of Navrongo-Bolgatanga
P.O. Box 351
Bolgatanga, U.E.R.
Ghana
January 4, 2010
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
I write to offer my prayers and most heartfelt condolences at the news of Bishop Lucas Abadamloora’s passing from this life. I send too the many prayers of the faithful of Madison, who have been notified of Bishop Lucas’s death and who will continue to pray for the repose of his soul and for each of you in our "partner" Diocese of Navrongo-Bolgatanga.
I have counted on Bishop Lucas’s prayers and friendship since my arrival in the Diocese of Madison in 2003, and he has never let me down. I pray that now the Lord will welcome Him with open arms and will continue to build up the Diocese of Navrongo-Bolgatanga, which has thrived under the faithful shepherding of Bishop Lucas.
I assure you that I will continue to pray for Bishop Lucas and for all of you at Mass, just as I have in the recent weeks. May Christ our Hope, made manifest in the person of our newly born Savior, be realized now for Bishop Lucas.
With every good wish for God’s peace and continued blessings, I remain,
Faithfully yours in Christ,
The Most Rev. Robert C. Morlino
Bishop of Madison
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