Notable people who died on April 2 include: Hasan ibn Ali the second Shia Imam (born 624), Æbbe the Younger, Muflih al-Turki, Yuan Dezhao, Bardas Skleros.

Notable Deaths on April 2

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Robert H. Schuller, American pastor and author (born 1926)

98 people 670 – 2025

April 2 has seen 98 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 670 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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2015 — Robert H. Schuller

American pastor and author (born 1926)

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The first church built under his tenure was the Garden Grove Community Church chapel which seated 500, and the second was the much larger Crystal Cathedral, which has a capacity of 2,200.

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Over five decades, Schuller pastored his church in Garden Grove, California starting in 1955

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The weekly broadcast of Hour of Power television program followed began in 1970, and he led until his retirement in 2006

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Robert Harold Schuller was an American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author

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His grandson, Bobby Schuller, carries on the Hour of Power, which has aired for over fifty years

Hasan ibn Ali the second Shia Imam (born 624)

Hasan ibn Ali was an Alid political and religious leader. The eldest son of Ali and Fatima and a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Hasan briefly ruled as caliph from January 661 until August 661. He is…

670

Æbbe the Younger

Frankish abbess

Saint Æbbe of Coldingham, also known as Æbbe the Younger, was an Abbess of Coldingham Priory in south-east Scotland.

870

Muflih al-Turki

Turkish general

Muflih al-Turki was a Turkish military officer of the Abbasid Caliphate in the mid-9th century. He played a prominent role in the events known as the Anarchy at Samarra and was later killed in battle against the Zanj…

872

Yuan Dezhao

Chinese chancellor (born 891)

Yuan Dezhao (元德昭), probably né Wei Dezhao (危德昭), courtesy name Mingyuan (名遠), was an official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Wuyue, serving as a chancellor during the rule of Qian Hongzong…

968

Bardas Skleros

Byzantine general

Bardas Skleros or Sclerus was a Byzantine general who led a wide-scale Asian rebellion against Emperor Basil II during the years 976 to 979.

991

Baldwin I

king of Jerusalem

Baldwin I was the first count of Edessa from 1098 to 1100 and king of Jerusalem from 1100 to his death in 1118. He was the youngest son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, and Ida of Lorraine and married a Norman…

1118

Henrik Harpestræng

Danish botanical and medical author

Henrik Harpestræng was a Danish botanical and medical author. He was a canon at the Roskilde Cathedral. His name literally means harp string. His greatest work was an urtebog, written in Danish. The book consists of 150…

1244

Richard

1st Earl of Cornwall, English husband of Sanchia of Provence (born 1209)

Richard was an English prince who was King of the Romans from 1257 until his death in 1272. He was the second son of John, King of England, and Isabella, Countess of Angoulême. Richard was nominal Count of Poitou from…

1272

Henry of Bohemia (born 1265)

Henry of Bohemia, a member of the House of Gorizia, was Duke of Carinthia and Landgrave of Carniola and Count of Tyrol from 1295 until his death, as well as King of Bohemia, Margrave of Moravia and titular King of…

1335

Ruy González de Clavijo

Spanish explorer and author

Ruy González de Clavijo was a Castilian traveler and writer. In 1403–1405, Clavijo was the ambassador of Henry III of Castile to the court of Timur, founder and ruler of the Timurid Empire. A diary of the journey,…

1412

Ferdinand I

king of Aragon (born 1379)

Ferdinand I named Ferdinand of Antequera and also the Just was king of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia and (nominally) Corsica and king of Sicily, duke (nominal) of Athens and Neopatria, and count of Barcelona,…

1416

Arthur

prince of Wales (born 1486)

Arthur, Prince of Wales was the eldest son of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and an older brother to the future King Henry VIII. He was Duke of Cornwall from birth, and he was created Prince of Wales…

1502

Francis of Paola

Italian friar and saint, founded the Order of the Minims (born 1416)

Francis of Paola, O.M., was a Catholic friar from the town of Paola in Calabria who founded the Order of Minims. He was named after Francis of Assisi and like him Francis of Paola was never ordained a priest.

1507

Bernard VII

Lord of Lippe, German nobleman (born 1428)

Bernard VII was the ruler of the Lordship of Lippe from 1429 until his death. Because of the many bloody feuds in which he was involved, he was nicknamed "the Bellicose". As Edler Herr of Lippe for 81 years, he was the…

1511

Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski

Polish author and poet (born 1595)

Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, was a Polish poet. He is considered Europe's most prominent Latin poet of the 17th century, and a renowned theoretician of poetics.

1640

Ferdinand III

Holy Roman Emperor (born 1608)

Ferdinand III was Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1625, King of Bohemia from 1627 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 to his death.

1657

Jean-Jacques Olier

French priest, founded the Society of Saint-Sulpice (born 1608)

Jean-Jacques Olier, S.S. was a French Catholic priest and the founder of the Sulpicians. He also helped to establish the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal, which organised the settlement of a new town called Ville-Marie in…

1657

Pedro Calungsod

Filipino missionary and saint (born 1654)

Pedro Calungsod, also known as Peter Calungsod and Pedro Calonsor, was a Catholic Filipino-Visayan migrant, sacristan and missionary catechist who, along with the Spanish Jesuit missionary Diego Luis de San Vitores,…

1672

Diego Luis de San Vitores

Spanish Jesuit missionary (born 1627)

Diego Luis de San Vitores, SJ was a Spanish Jesuit missionary who founded the first Catholic church on the island of Guam. He is responsible for establishing the Christian presence in the Mariana Islands. He and his…

1672

Joseph Dudley

English politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (born 1647)

Joseph Dudley was a colonial administrator, a native of Roxbury in Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the son of one of its founders. He had a leading role in the administration of the Dominion of New England (1686–1689),…

1720

James Douglas

Scottish physician and anatomist (born 1675)

James Douglas was a Scottish physician and anatomist, and Physician Extraordinary to Queen Caroline.

1742

Johann Jacob Dillenius

German-English botanist and mycologist (born 1684)

Johann Jacob Dillen Dillenius was a German botanist. He is known for his Hortus Elthamensis on the rare plants around Eltham, London, and for his Historia muscorum, a natural history of lower plants including mosses,…

1747

Thomas Carte

English historian and author (born 1686)

Thomas or John Carte (1686–1754) was an English historian with Jacobite sympathies, who served as a Church of England clergyman.

1754

Thomas Gage

English general and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (born 1719)

General Thomas Gage was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his many years of service in North America, including serving as Commander-in-Chief, North America during the early days of the…

1787

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti

comte de Mirabeau, French journalist and politician (born 1749)

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau was a French writer, orator, and statesman, and a prominent figure of the early stages of the French Revolution.

1791

Thomas Dadford

Jr., English engineer (born 1761)

Thomas Dadford Jr. was an English canal engineer, who came from a family of canal engineers. He first worked with his father in the north of Britain on the Stour and the Trent, but later independently, contributing to…

1801

Sir James Montgomery

1st Baronet, Scottish judge and politician (born 1721)

Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet Stanhope, FRSE was a Scottish advocate, judge, country landowner, agriculturalist and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1766 to 1775. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the…

1803

Johann Heinrich Jung

German author and academic (born 1740)

Johann Heinrich Jung, better known by his assumed name Heinrich Stilling, was a German author. He is often called by both surnames as "Jung-Stilling".

1817

Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus

German physician and educator (born 1776)

Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus Latinized as Ludovicus Henricus Bojanus was a Franco-German physician, comparative anatomist, and naturalist who spent most of his active career teaching veterinary medicine at Vilnius University…

1827

Philip Charles Durham

Scottish admiral and politician (born 1763)

Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson Calderwood Durham, GCB was a Royal Navy officer whose service in the American War of Independence, French Revolutionary War and Napoleonic Wars was lengthy, distinguished and at…

1845

A. P. Hill

American general (born 1825)

Ambrose Powell Hill Jr. was a Confederate general who was killed in the American Civil War. He is usually referred to as A. P. Hill to differentiate him from Confederate general Daniel Harvey Hill, who was unrelated.

1865

Samuel Morse

American painter and academic, invented the Morse code (born 1791)

Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on…

1872

Albert Pike

American lawyer and general (born 1809)

Albert Pike was an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general who served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in exile from 1864 to 1865. He had previously…

1891

Ahmed Vefik Pasha

Greek playwright and politician, 249th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1823)

Ahmed Vefik Pasha was an Ottoman statesman, diplomat, scholar, playwright, and translator during the Tanzimat and First Constitutional Era periods. He was commissioned with top-rank governmental duties, including…

1891

Achille Vianelli

Italian painter and academic (born 1803)

Achille Vianelli or Vianelly was an Italian painter of landscapes with genre scenes, often in watercolor.

1894

Theodore Robinson

American painter and academic (born 1852)

Theodore Robinson was an American painter best known for his Impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American artists to take up Impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close…

1896

Paul Heyse

German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1830)

Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse was a German writer and translator. A member of two important literary societies, the Tunnel über der Spree in Berlin and Die Krokodile in Munich, he wrote novels, poetry, 177 short stories,…

1914

Bryn Lewis

Welsh international rugby player (born 1891)

Major Brinley Lewis, known as Bryn Lewis, was a Welsh international rugby union wing who played club rugby for Newport and Cambridge University. He is one of twelve Welsh internationals to have died in active duty…

1917

Topal Osman

Turkish colonel (born 1883)

Hacı Topal Osman Ağa, was a Turkish officer, a militia leader of the National Forces, a volunteer regiment commander of the Turkish army during the Turkish War of Independence who eventually rose to the rank of…

1923

Theodore William Richards

American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868)

Theodore William Richards was an American physical chemist and the first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, earning the award "in recognition of his exact determinations of the atomic weights of…

1928

Zewditu I of Ethiopia (born 1876)

Zewditu was Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 until her death in 1930. She officially adopted the regnal name "Zewditu" at the beginning of her reign, which was triggered by the dethroning of Lij Iyasu in 1916. Her…

1930

Ranjitsinhji

Indian cricketer (born 1872)

Colonel Kumar Sri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II, often known as Ranji or K. S. Ranjitsinhji, was an Indian cricketer who later became ruler of his native Indian princely state of Nawanagar, from 1907 to 1933. The main…

1933

Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne

French general (born 1860)

Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne was a general of artillery and a specialist in military engineering, one of the founders of modern French artillery and French military aviation, and the creator of the French tank arm. He…

1936

Édouard Estaunié

French novelist (born 1862)

Édouard Estaunié was a French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer, working at the Post and Telegraph service and training further in Holland, before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised…

1942

Sabahattin Ali

Turkish journalist, author, and poet (born 1907)

Sabahattin Ali was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.

1948

Hugo Sperrle

German field marshal (born 1885)

Hugo Wilhelm Sperrle was a German military aviator in World War I and a Generalfeldmarschall in the Luftwaffe during World War II.

1953

Hoyt Vandenberg

US Air Force general (born 1899)

Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg was a United States Air Force general. He served as the second Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the second Director of Central Intelligence.

1954

C. S. Forester

English novelist (born 1899)

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, best known by his pen name C.S. Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer…

1966

Franz Halder

German general (born 1884)

Franz Halder was a German general and the chief of staff of the Army High Command (OKH) in Nazi Germany from 1938 until September 1942. During World War II, he directed the planning and implementation of Operation…

1972

Toshitsugu Takamatsu

Japanese martial artist and educator (born 1887)

Toshitsugu Takamatsu was a Japanese martial artist and teacher of Bujinkan founder Masaaki Hatsumi. He has been called "The Last Shinobi" by Bujinkan instructor Wolfgang Ettig.

1972

Georges Pompidou

French banker and politician, 19th President of France (born 1911)

Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou was President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. He had previously served from 1962 to 1968 as Prime Minister of France under President Charles de Gaulle, with whom he was closely…

1974

Walter Wolf

German academic and politician (born 1907)

Walter Wolf was a German politician and member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

1977

Buddy Rich

American drummer, songwriter, and bandleader (born 1917)

Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time.

1987

Manolis Angelopoulos

Greek singer (born 1939)

Manolis Angelopoulos was a Greek singer of Gypsy origin.

1989

Juanito

Spanish footballer and manager (born 1954)

Juan Gómez González, known as Juanito, was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward.

1992

Jan van Aartsen

Dutch politician (born 1909)

Johannes "Jan" van Aartsen was a Dutch jurist and politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP).

1992

Betty Furness

American actress, consumer advocate, game show panelist, television journalist and television personality (born 1916)

Elizabeth Mary Furness was an American actress, consumer advocate, and current affairs commentator.

1994

Marc Fitch

British historian and philanthropist (born 1908)

Marcus Felix Brudenell Fitch , was an English historian and philanthropist.

1994

Hannes Alfvén

Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)

Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now known as…

1995

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Japanese director and producer (born 1910)

Tomoyuki "Yūkō" Tanaka was a Japanese film producer, best known as the creator of Godzilla. He produced most of the installments in the Godzilla series, beginning in 1954 with Godzilla and ending in 1995 with Godzilla…

1997

Rob Pilatus

American-German singer-songwriter (born 1965)

Robert Pilatus was a German singer, dancer, and model. He was a member of the pop music duo Milli Vanilli with Fab Morvan.

1998

Charles Daudelin

Canadian sculptor and painter (born 1920)

Charles Daudelin, was a Canadian artist who was a pioneer in modern sculpture and painting. He worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, metal and ceramic sculpture, jewelry, and marionettes which he made…

2001

Levi Celerio

Filipino composer and songwriter (born 1910)

Levi Celerio was a Filipino composer and lyricist who is credited with writing over 4,000 songs. Celerio was recognized as a National Artist of the Philippines for Music and Literature in 1997.

2002

John R. Pierce

American engineer and author (born 1910)

John Robinson Pierce, was an American electrical engineer and author. He did extensive work concerning radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction. Additionally to his…

2002

Edwin Starr

American singer-songwriter (born 1942)

Charles Edwin Hatcher, known by his stage name Edwin Starr, was an American singer and songwriter. He is best remembered for his Norman Whitfield-produced Motown singles of the 1970s, most notably the number-one hit…

2003

John Argyris

Greek computer scientist, engineer, and academic (born 1913)

Johann Hadjiargyris FRS was a Greek pioneer of computer applications in science and engineering, among the creators of the finite element method (FEM), and later Professor at the University of Stuttgart and Director of…

2004

Lillian O'Donnell

American crime novelist (born 1926)

Lillian O'Donnell was an American crime novelist notable for being one of the first to introduce a female police officer as the lead character in a book series.

2005

Pope John Paul II (born 1920)

Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in the 16th century, as well as the…

2005

Lloyd Searwar

Guyanese anthologist and diplomat (born 1925)

Lloyd Searwar was a career Guyanese diplomat, and later the Director of the Foreign Service Institute in Guyana.

2006

Henry L. Giclas

American astronomer and academic (born 1910)

Henry Lee Giclas was an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets. best known for hiring Robert Burnham Jr. at the Lowell Observatory. He worked on a notable proper motion survey with several…

2007

Yakup Satar

Turkish World War I veteran (born 1898)

Yakup Satar was a Turkish and Ottoman soldier who is believed to have been the last Ottoman veteran of the First World War. He died at age 110.

2008

Albert Sanschagrin

Canadian bishop (born 1911)

Albert Sanschagrin, O.M.I. was Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, and the oldest Canadian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church at the time of his death.

2009

Bud Shank

American saxophonist and flute player (born 1926)

Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank Jr. was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He rose to prominence in the early 1950s playing lead alto and flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra and throughout…

2009

Chris Kanyon

American wrestler (born 1970)

Christopher Morgan Klucsarits was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from 1994 to 2004, under the…

2010

John C. Haas

American businessman and philanthropist (born 1918)

John Charles Haas was an American businessman and philanthropist, at one time considered the second richest man in Philadelphia. He was the chairman of global chemical company Rohm and Haas from 1974 to 1978. Under his…

2011

Jesús Aguilarte

Venezuelan captain and politician (born 1959)

Jesús Aguilarte was the Governor of Apure State in Venezuela from 1999 to 2000, and from 2004 to 2011. He died in a Maracay hospital on April 2, 2012, after being attacked by a gunman on March 24, 2012. He was 53.

2012

Elizabeth Catlett

American-Mexican sculptor and illustrator (born 1915)

Elizabeth Catlett, born as Alice Elizabeth Catlett, also known as Elizabeth Catlett Mora was an American and Mexican sculptor and graphic artist best known for her depictions of the Black-American experience in the 20th…

2012

Mauricio Lasansky

American graphic designer and academic (born 1914)

Mauricio Leib Lasansky was an Argentine artist and educator known both for his advanced techniques in intaglio printmaking and for a series of 33 pencil drawings from the 1960s titled "The Nazi Drawings." Lasansky, who…

2012

Fred

French author and illustrator (born 1931)

Frédéric Othon Théodore Aristidès, known by his pseudonym Fred, was a French cartoonist in the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. He is best known for his series Philémon.

2013

Jesús Franco

Spanish director, screenwriter, producer, and actor (born 1930)

Jesús Franco Manera, also commonly known as Jess Franco, was a Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor, known as a highly prolific director of low-budget exploitation and B-movies. He worked in many different genres…

2013

Milo O'Shea

Irish-American actor (born 1926)

Milo Donal O'Shea was an Irish actor. He received nomination for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his breakthrough role of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses (1967), and was twice nominated for the Tony Award for…

2013

Urs Widmer

Swiss author and playwright (born 1938)

Urs Widmer was a Swiss novelist, playwright, an essayist, and a short story writer.

2014

Manoel de Oliveira

Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1908)

Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about World War I. In…

2015

Steve Stevaert

Belgian businessman and politician, Governor of Limburg (born 1954)

Steve Stevaert was a Belgian politician of the Flemish Socialist Party: the SP.A.

2015

Gallieno Ferri

Italian comic book artist and illustrator (born 1929)

Gallieno Ferri was an Italian comic book artist and illustrator. He was born in Genoa.

2016

Robert Abajyan

Armenian sergeant (born 1996)

Robert Abajyan was an Armenian junior sergeant in the Republic of Artsakh Defense Army. He was posthumously awarded the "Hero of Artsakh" which is the highest honorary title of the self-declared Republic of Artsakh.

2016

Alma Delia Fuentes

Mexican actress (born 1937)

Alma Delia Susana Fuentes González was a Mexican actress of film, television, and theatre.

2017

Simon Bainbridge

British composer (born 1952)

Simon Bainbridge was a British composer. He was also a professor and head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and visiting professor at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States.

2021

Estelle Harris

American actress and comedian (born 1928)

Estelle Harris was an American actress and comedian, known for her exaggeratedly shrill voice. She was best known for her role as Estelle Costanza on Seinfeld. Her other roles included the voice of Mrs. Potato Head in…

2022

Jerry Abbott

American country music songwriter and record producer (born 1942)

Jerry Bob Abbott was an American country music songwriter and record producer. He was the father of heavy metal musicians Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell, both formerly of Pantera and Damageplan.

2024

John Barth

American writer (born 1930)

John Simmons Barth was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include The Sot-Weed Factor, a whimsical…

2024

Maryse Condé

Guadeloupean novelist, critic, and playwright (born 1934)

Maryse Condé was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. She was also an academic, whose teaching career took her to West Africa and North America, as well…

2024

Christopher Durang

American playwright (born 1949)

Christopher Ferdinand Durang was an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s, though his career seemed to get a second wind in the late…

2024

Larry Lucchino

American attorney and baseball executive (born 1945)

Lawrence Lucchino was an American lawyer and Major League Baseball executive. He served as president of the Baltimore Orioles, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the San Diego Padres, and president and CEO…

2024

John Sinclair

American poet (born 1941)

John Alexander Sinclair Jr. was an American poet, writer, and political activist from Flint, Michigan. Sinclair's defining style is jazz poetry, and he released most of his works in audio formats. Most of his pieces…

2024

Juan Vicente Pérez

Venezuelan supercentenarian (born 1909)

Juan Vicente Pérez Mora was a Venezuelan supercentenarian who, until his death aged 114 years, 311 days, was the world's oldest verified living man following the death of Spain's Saturnino de la Fuente García on 18…

2024

Khamtai Siphandone

Laotian politician, 4th President of Laos (born 1924)

General Khamtai Siphandone was a Laotian politician who served as the chairman of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party from 1992 to 2006 and as the fourth president of Laos from 1998 to 2006, when he was replaced by…

2025

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Dissolution of the Jesuits — April 2, 1773

1773, Pope Clement XIV dissolves the Jesuit Order in Rome, Italy, shocking Catholic Europe with far-reaching consequences for education, politics, and the Church.

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Known forOver five decades, Schuller pastored his church in Garden Grove, California starting in 1955

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