Fr. Raul Lopez Marzetti died December 15, 2022, at the age of 68.
Fr. Raul was born on October 9, 1954 in Rosario, Province of Santa Fe, Argentina. He was 68 years old and was ordained to the priesthood on August 28, 1985, for the Archdiocese of Mercedes-Luján, Argentina.
Fr. Raul served the first years of his priestly ministry in various parishes in the Archdiocese of Mercedes-Luján. In 2001, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona and served as Parochial Vicar of San Francisco de Asis Parish in Flagstaff. During the next years, he also served as Parochial Vicar at St. Anne Parish in Gilbert, St. Daniel the Prophet in Phoenix, Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral, St. Mary Mediatrix in Yarnell and Good Shepherd in Congress, and St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Phoenix. He was incardinated into the Diocese of Phoenix on May 19, 2008. In December of 2019, Fr. López was granted permission to have a pastoral experience in the Archdiocese of New York at St. Jerome Parish, run by the Priests of the Institute of the Incarnate Word. There he retired on January 2, 2020.
Services: Funeral Mass will be held on Thursday, December 22, 2022, at 12:30pm at St. John Baptist de LaSalle in Chillum, Maryland. He will be buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, MD.