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][9] |
Faustino Villanueva Villanueva, MSC |
Spanish |
Parish priest of Joyabaj |
10 July 1980 |
Assassinated[7][9][10][11] |
Juan Alonso Fernández, MSC |
Spanish |
Parish priest of Uspantán |
15 February 1981 |
Assassinated[6][7][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][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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