Assassinated Catholic priests in Guatemala

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List of assassinated and forcibly disappeared Roman Catholic priests working in Guatemala.

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Name Nationality Parish Date killed Notes
William Woods, MM American Maryknoll mission Ixcán 20 November 1976 Included in death list of the Guatemalan military. Killed in plane crash under suspicious circumstances.[1]
Eufemio Hermógenes López Coarchita Guatemalan Parish priest of San José Pinula 30 June 1978 Assassinated[2][3]
Conrado de la Cruz Concepción Filipino Parish priest of Tiquisate 1 May 1980 Abducted and disappeared[3][4]
Walter Voordeckers, CICM Belgian Parish priest of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa 12 May 1980 Assassinated[3][4][5]
José María Gran Cirera, MSC Spanish Parish priest of Chajul 4 June 1980 Assassinated[6][7][8][9]
Faustino Villanueva Villanueva, MSC Spanish Parish priest of Joyabaj 10 July 1980 Assassinated[7][8][9][10][11]
Juan Alonso Fernández, MSC Spanish Parish priest of Uspantán 15 February 1981 Assassinated[6][7][8][9][11]
Carlos Gálvez Galindo Guatemalan Parish priest of Tecpán 14 May 1981 Assassinated[3][12]
Tullio Marcello Maruzzo, OFM Italian Diocesan priest of Izabal 1 July 1981 Assassinated[13][14][15][16]
Stanley Francis Rother American Parish priest of Santiago Atitlán 28 July 1981 Assassinated[17][18][19][16][20][11]
Carlos Pérez Alonso, SJ Spanish Hospital chaplain 2 August 1981 Abducted and disappeared[6][8][9]
Carlos Ramiro Morales López, OP Guatemalan Parish priest of Rabinal 21 January 1982 Assassinated[3][6]
James Alfred Miller, FSC American Teacher in Huehuetenango 13 February 1982 Assassinated[21]
Augusto Rafael Ramírez Monasterio, OFM Guatemalan Parish priest of Antigua Guatemala 7 November 1983 Abducted and assassinated.[3][6][22][23]
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